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  • C Christian Graus

    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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    LloydA111
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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:
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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.

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      Christian Graus
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      The Mac is an awesome beast, no question of that.

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      • C Christian Graus

        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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        Rama Krishna Vavilala
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        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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        • L Lost User

          Locking it to one core would free up the other cores.

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          Electron Shepherd
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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.

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          • C Christian Graus

            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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            LloydA111
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            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.

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            • C Christian Graus

              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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              Rob Graham
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              It's called indecision. Works much better with only 1 processor.

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              • C Christian Graus

                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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                Electron Shepherd
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                Is it eight actual processors, or one processor with four hyper-threading cores? You can get a genuine 8 processor machine using Opterons, and the OS sees it as 32 cores, but I thought the Mac used Intel CPUs. Not a pretty as a Mac,but packing more punch[^]

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                • C Christian Graus

                  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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                  DaveX86
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                  I have no problems with IE...maybe you should quit screwing around with all your settings...you're obviously no good at it :)

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    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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                    JimmyRopes
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                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    The latest Firefox is no better

                    May I suggest Opera. I have been using it for years now and it is still less than 3% of the browsers out there. I consider it a security feature. Not that security by obscurity is any security at all, but put yourself in the hackers position. Would you write custom code to target less than 2% of the population when there are such target rich environments out there. Once I started using it I ended up liking it. Give it a try, you might like it. PS - it is also the most W3C complaint browser, but just getting your web page to render properly on Opera isn't the end of the story. You then need to get the big 2, IE and FF, to render properly. Most people use them.

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                    • E Electron Shepherd

                      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.

                      Server and Network Monitoring

                      modified on Monday, December 21, 2009 7:11 PM

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                      Lost User
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                      What? That doesn't have anything to do with it - you are making the thread wait, not making it lock up the computer

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                      • L LloydA111

                        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.

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                        Christian Graus
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                        I don't know if it was intended to be, but it's a Mac Pro, I bought it new.

                        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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                        • E Electron Shepherd

                          Is it eight actual processors, or one processor with four hyper-threading cores? You can get a genuine 8 processor machine using Opterons, and the OS sees it as 32 cores, but I thought the Mac used Intel CPUs. Not a pretty as a Mac,but packing more punch[^]

                          Server and Network Monitoring

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                          Christian Graus
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                          It's 2 lots of 4 cores, you got me there :rolleyes:

                          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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                          • D DaveX86

                            I have no problems with IE...maybe you should quit screwing around with all your settings...you're obviously no good at it :)

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                            Christian Graus
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                            *grin* it's IE8 - vanilla.

                            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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                            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                              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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                              Christian Graus
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                              IE8 ? I installed 8 when I installed all available updates to try to repro a bug that was reported to me.

                              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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                              • C Christian Graus

                                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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                                Sean Cundiff
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                                8 processors or 8 cores? There's a big difference between the two. If it's 8 procs that machine is a beast.

                                -Sean ---- Fire Nuts

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                                • C Christian Graus

                                  IE8 ? I installed 8 when I installed all available updates to try to repro a bug that was reported to me.

                                  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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                                  Dr Walt Fair PE
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                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  IE8 ? I installed 8 when I installed all available updates to try to repro a bug that was reported to me.

                                  Well, there's your problem. Sheesh, just do like MS and don't worry about bug reports. Then you'd still be blissful and without IE.

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    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

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                                    Luc Pattyn
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                                    Marc Clifton wrote:

                                    Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly...

                                    For IE8 they did hire a guy who has actually read the HTML specifications. Some people seem hard to please. :laugh:

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                                    • R Rob Graham

                                      It's called indecision. Works much better with only 1 processor.

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                                      Luc Pattyn
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                                      Rob Graham wrote:

                                      Works much better with only 1 processor.

                                      and better still with 3 (or any odd number, the kernel sometimes needs a majority vote on tough decisions). :laugh:

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                                      • S Sean Cundiff

                                        8 processors or 8 cores? There's a big difference between the two. If it's 8 procs that machine is a beast.

                                        -Sean ---- Fire Nuts

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                                        Anders Molin
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                                        8 Cores. I also happen to have one ;)

                                        - Anders

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                                        • C Christian Graus

                                          *grin* it's IE8 - vanilla.

                                          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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                                          Jorgen Andersson
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                                          Are you saying you don't have any addons on your IE8? Not even Java?

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