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gah!.. it saps so much memory from my G4 at work.. that it`s spoiling my timewasting and making me do some work... even if i have the page loaded in the background.. the whole OS slows down incredibly...

can you limit it`s use to the general forum page only?..

...or even better code it properly. ;-)

Code it properly? And just how, mister expert of javascript, does one code it properly? :)

What browser and version are you using Haggis? It shouldn`t eat cpu at all as it uses the setTimeout() function and actually does nothing at all for 99% of the time.

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It saps the life out of my G3 too. It`s obviously a mac thing. The challenge is on to see if you can sort it!! I`m using OS 8.1. Explorer 5.1. It does the same thing in Netscape 4.

If you look at Windows Task Manager while the ticker is running in Internet Explorer you can see that the while the ticker is spelling out the message the CPU taken by the browser rises to 100% and then when the ticker pauses between messages the CPU usage drops down again.

This would appear to be an IE thing as the processor spikes do not appear when browing with NN7 or Opera 7. It may be due to the way IE handles javascript? Don`t know the answer to that one.

I`ve never seen a Javascript ticker that doesn`t do this, they all seem to be processor intensive. I don`t know if any of the Java based tickers are any better, but then who wants to be mssing around with Java? :)

I hope you can sort it as it`s annoying when the top third of the page starts flickering (I think there was another thread on this the other day)

Just fyi, I am running IE6, NN7 and Opera 7 on Win2k, P3 733 512MB RAM

Hope this helps a little,
Nick

Or perhaps give people the option of turning the ticker off, much as we can choose whether we get the R1 or R2 news page when we visit the site?

Mike

Stick the option in the `Options` page, default set to off (or on if you stick a statement by it with a link to shutting it off).

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`tis true.

While I haven`t noticed the performance drop off, when it`s typing the CPU does go to 100%.
I can`t be 100% sure but certainly since around the time it came in I can`t access the page at all at work - just get the Reviewer banner across the top. On Netscape on Solaris.

Ste

Cheers guys, I`ve nuked the ticker for now. Expect a new cpu unintensive Flash one to pop up in the next day or so in its place. :)

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The ticker is back, hopefully minus CPU usage issues. Still waiting on a Flash one to replace it.

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