IE locks my computer
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
My whole computer locks for some time every time I try to access a network share in explorer. I'm guessing it needs a lock on some mutex that tons of other processes also lock *shrugs* I'm still on XP though - have they fixed that problem yet cause it might actually be something worth upgrading for. I don't think # of processors makes a lot of difference to anything - single core single processors have been dealing with hundreds of threads for years - having twice the number of cores is probably no better than doubling how many instructions per second the processor can execute and 99% of the time the processors just idle anyway as every running thread is either waiting for disk or network, or waiting to acquire a lock held by something that's doing one of those things.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Have you considered running "it" in a Virtual Machine? That way you could assign three processors, and only those three would get locked up. A few days ago my machine broke down, and I accidentally installed openSuse from the LiveCD. I'm really confused since. Your "personal" computer sounds like half-a-server to me, you might as well turn it into several desktops that you can use simultaneous.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
They don't call it Internet Exploder for nothing. I only use Internet Exploder when I have too. Opera 10 is my current prefered browser with FireFox 3.0 next (3.5 is a dog/hog take your pick).
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Have you considered running "it" in a Virtual Machine? That way you could assign three processors, and only those three would get locked up. A few days ago my machine broke down, and I accidentally installed openSuse from the LiveCD. I'm really confused since. Your "personal" computer sounds like half-a-server to me, you might as well turn it into several desktops that you can use simultaneous.
I are Troll :suss:
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Your "personal" computer sounds like half-a-server to me
It's a Mac Pro. In OSX I have 4 processors for Windows and four for Mac. I do my browsing in Safari, and it NEVER locks up.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Your "personal" computer sounds like half-a-server to me
It's a Mac Pro. In OSX I have 4 processors for Windows and four for Mac. I do my browsing in Safari, and it NEVER locks up.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
It's a Mac Pro. In OSX I have 4 processors for Windows and four for Mac. I do my browsing in Safari, and it NEVER locks up.
Stability is a selling-point that's only popular among nerds. Besides, both be "free" software :)
Christian Graus wrote:
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
That could have tipped me off :laugh:
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up.
IE is a POS. I recently received a nice 4 processor system from a client, and it came with IE 8. Which locks up all tabs when it's trying to load one tab. Which crashes numerous times, and which asks idiotic questions like "close all tabs" but doesn't leave me an option to automatically save all tabs (or something like that, the whole damn close thing is so obfuscated, just close the damn app and re-open it in the same state later on!!!) And what's with that "compatibility" button? Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly, without my having to manually click a button??? So, I screamed IEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and installed Chrome. Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
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How would that help? I can't imagine what situation you're thinking of where a processor affinity change would make a difference. The OS is already running more than one thread per core (assuming the OS has, in total, more than 8 threads running!)
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Christian Graus wrote:
and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up.
IE is a POS. I recently received a nice 4 processor system from a client, and it came with IE 8. Which locks up all tabs when it's trying to load one tab. Which crashes numerous times, and which asks idiotic questions like "close all tabs" but doesn't leave me an option to automatically save all tabs (or something like that, the whole damn close thing is so obfuscated, just close the damn app and re-open it in the same state later on!!!) And what's with that "compatibility" button? Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly, without my having to manually click a button??? So, I screamed IEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and installed Chrome. Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
I may try that. The latest Firefox is no better, which is why I am on IE.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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How would that help? I can't imagine what situation you're thinking of where a processor affinity change would make a difference. The OS is already running more than one thread per core (assuming the OS has, in total, more than 8 threads running!)
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You know what's funny? IE8 is the best of the IE versions. It's a pig, a pig that regularly fails to produce tasty bacon, but still it's the best of a bad lot. And still there are folks that'll try to defend it. Stockholm Syndrome, I tells ya...
Shog9 wrote:
And still there are folks that'll try to defend it. Stockholm Syndrome, I tells ya...
I'd assume they were people scared of losing their MVP status. Who but someone with something to lose would defend it ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote:
and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up.
IE is a POS. I recently received a nice 4 processor system from a client, and it came with IE 8. Which locks up all tabs when it's trying to load one tab. Which crashes numerous times, and which asks idiotic questions like "close all tabs" but doesn't leave me an option to automatically save all tabs (or something like that, the whole damn close thing is so obfuscated, just close the damn app and re-open it in the same state later on!!!) And what's with that "compatibility" button? Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly, without my having to manually click a button??? So, I screamed IEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and installed Chrome. Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
Marc Clifton wrote:
I recently received a nice 4 processor system from a client, and it came with IE 8.
And perhaps some extra toolbars / BHOs installed, as is typical with a new computer? Try it on a clean system, and it works fine. Tabs don't lock other tabs when loading, and I don't think I've had IE8 crash once on either Vista or XP.
Marc Clifton wrote:
re-open it in the same state later on
That's what the 'reopen last browsing session' link is for.
Marc Clifton wrote:
Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Think of the compatibility button as "enable workarounds for bad HTML". It is impossible to buld a browser that renders HTML correctly in all cases, since so much of the web is badly written HTML. (Take a look at the source for http://www.interacx.com/[^] for an example of mal-formed HTML).
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
8 proccessors? :wtf: 20 GB RAM? :wtf: I want one :-D
If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Useful links:
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8 proccessors? :wtf: 20 GB RAM? :wtf: I want one :-D
If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Useful links:
Creating a bootable CD with several operating systems on.The Mac is an awesome beast, no question of that.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I have EIGHT processors, and when IE is loading a page, or refreshing, my whole computer locks up. What is that about ? 20 GB RAM, but I am running 32 bit, so 3 GB available.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I have one processor and 1 gb ram. When ie loads a page I can compile a solution in visual studio, launch a WPF application and load the same page in chrome. When I am done doing those , ie finally loads the page. So, no I don' t have the same problem.
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harold aptroot wrote:
Locking it to one core would free up the other cores.
Free them up? They aren't locked. I don't think you understand how the Windows scheduler works. Write a program that starts a thread, and locks it. For example, the code
WaitForSingleObject(GetCurrenthThread(), INFINITE);will do. Run it on single core system. Run four instances on a four core system. Notice that the whole computer doesn't lock up.modified on Monday, December 21, 2009 7:11 PM
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The Mac is an awesome beast, no question of that.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Was/is it some kind of server?
If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Useful links:
Creating a bootable CD with several operating systems on.