Talk about stressing the Mac Pro

[PowerMike G5]

I usually stress my MacPro with my video editing/video encoding/transcoding ...

But I went onto my friend's myspace page and it really taxed my computer ... using over 200% of CPU power to access a page :eek:

Looks like we'll need those Octos faster than we think ...

[THX1139]

I usually stress my MacPro with my video editing/video encoding/transcoding ...

But I went onto my friend's myspace page and it really taxed my computer ... using over 200% of CPU power to access a page :eek:

Looks like we'll need those Octos faster than we think ...

That's pretty funny! I gave up on MySpace a long time ago when I couldn't access it with my G4 laptop and it would crash the browser or refuse to load. MySpace breaks every rule of book when it comes to design and web functionality. It's crazy that it's so successful when it's so crappy.

Now that I have a MacPro, I can probably view some of the sites on mySpace, but I think I'm going to boycott because it sucks so bad.

[slughead]

It's not myspace, it's your friend's style/css coding.

He must have made it so ridiculous that it melts browsers--very common on myspace.

[DXoverDY]

It's not myspace, it's your friend's style/css coding.

He must have made it so ridiculous that it melts browsers--very common on myspace.

I think it has more to do with animated backgrounds, 8 flash-based photo slideshows, a few music videos, and embedded music along with weird CSS that breaks browsers.

[Swarmlord]

I'd love to see OS-X (and Windows for that matter) allow the user to throttle back the maximum cpu usage any application can seize. Sure, the application thinks that it has 100% of the resources, but the OS shouldn't allow that. I'd like to see a slider bar control that allows you to allocate anywhere from 99% down to 1% of the CPU.

[MacBoobsPro]

I'd love to see OS-X (and Windows for that matter) allow the user to throttle back the maximum cpu usage any application can seize. Sure, the application thinks that it has 100% of the resources, but the OS shouldn't allow that. I'd like to see a slider bar control that allows you to allocate anywhere from 99% down to 1% of the CPU.

I'd like to see myspace burnt to the ground (along with eBay and PayPal of course) :D

[THX1139]

If web technology was alcohol, then mySpace would be like spring break.

[yojitani]

If web technology was alcohol, then mySpace would be like spring break.

:confused: This is crashing my biological CPU:D .

Also, MacboobsPro careful what you say, you might get the Feds after you!

[MacBoobsPro]

:confused: This is crashing my biological CPU:D .

Also, MacboobsPro careful what you say, you might get the Feds after you!

I'll be fine. I forgot YouTube as well :D

[illstabyou]

As a not-so-scientific test in the Apple store when I was buying my iMac, I went various MySpace pages, the kind that are a complete fun-fest, to see if how quickly they would load.

[portent]

I'd love to see OS-X (and Windows for that matter) allow the user to throttle back the maximum cpu usage any application can seize. Sure, the application thinks that it has 100% of the resources, but the OS shouldn't allow that. I'd like to see a slider bar control that allows you to allocate anywhere from 99% down to 1% of the CPU.
Can't do a slider quite yet, and can only do 1-10, not 1-99, but....
NAME
renice -- alter priority of running processes

SYNOPSIS
renice priority [[-p] pid ...] [[-g] pgrp ...] [[-u] user ...]
renice -n increment [[-p] pid ...] [[-g] pgrp ...] [[-u] user ...]

DESCRIPTION
The renice utility alters the scheduling priority of one or more running
processes. The following who parameters are interpreted as process ID's,
process group ID's, user ID's or user names. The renice'ing of a process
group causes all processes in the process group to have their scheduling
priority altered. The renice'ing of a user causes all processes owned by
the user to have their scheduling priority altered. By default, the pro-
cesses to be affected are specified by their process ID's.

The following options are available:

-g Force who parameters to be interpreted as process group ID's.

-n Instead of changing the specified processes to the given prior-
ity, interpret the following argument as an increment to be
applied to the current priority of each process.

-u Force the who parameters to be interpreted as user names or user
ID's.

-p Reset the who interpretation to be (the default) process ID's.

For example,

renice +1 987 -u daemon root -p 32

would change the priority of process ID's 987 and 32, and all processes
owned by users daemon and root.

[SFVCyclone]

Myspace is wack, and most users dont erally care about how bad the layout really is, OK i'll stop ranting now.

[Sharky II]

it's safari. it sucks.

omniweb handles it much better.

watching a p3 800 with firefox rape my dualcore g5 when looking at someones myspace, and load it instantly (while i had the spinning beach ball) made me pretty pissed

omniweb still doesn't handle it as well as a pc, but it ***** all over safari

[theblotted]

I'd love to see OS-X (and Windows for that matter) allow the user to throttle back the maximum cpu usage any application can seize. Sure, the application thinks that it has 100% of the resources, but the OS shouldn't allow that. I'd like to see a slider bar control that allows you to allocate anywhere from 99% down to 1% of the CPU.

have you tried Process Wizard?

here's the link:

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/8056

too bad it's PPC only... but seems like you can use it.

i remember awhile back when Crazedlist.org opening multiple pages, it'll completely stall my TiBook; cuz it's trying to open 250 some pages at once! (fixed now, i think)

[macintouch]

I've also found that MySpace completely rapes my system resources for some reason. Doesn't help when you're going on someone's page and they have tons of dis proportionately sized pictures and stupid flash animations.

[trudd]

OMG l33tz0r members + bogged down servers = myspace.

[FF_productions]

Myspace is god-awfully slow on safari.

Firefox, it's alright..

On Windows, its fine.

Whats going on?:confused:

[slughead]

I'll be fine. I forgot YouTube as well :D

I was about to call you on that one :)

[slughead]

Myspace is god-awfully slow on safari.

Firefox, it's alright..

On Windows, its fine.

Whats going on?:confused:

Safari sucks, that's all.

Though I'm a mac user 99% of the time, none of my websites are optimized for safari. I get them to basically work but I am sure as hell not going to do the code work-arounds to get it running better.

Javascript especially in safari is painful as hell... though generally if it works in IE 6, it'll work in safari.

[FF_productions]

Safari sucks, that's all.

Though I'm a mac user 99% of the time, none of my websites are optimized for safari. I get them to basically work but I am sure as hell not going to do the code work-arounds to get it running better.

Javascript especially in safari is painful as hell... though generally if it works in IE 6, it'll work in safari.

Why won't Apple make it faster? Can they?

It hurts like hell to say it, but it scrolls like a knife through hot butter when I'm in Windows.

[slughead]

Why won't Apple make it faster? Can they?

It hurts like hell to say it, but it scrolls like a knife through hot butter when I'm in Windows.

Making a web browser is way too ambitious. Apple has to compete with a company 10 times its size, as well as mozilla, which already has a fantastic product.

[daveporter]

Camino is a much faster browser than Safari or Firefox in my opinion. If you have not given it a try, you will be surprised at its performance.

Dave

[theblotted]

haven't tried Camino, but i tend to find Firefox a bit more sluggish than Safari. just IME.

even takes a while to load.

also, different key commands that are standard in Mac's is cumbersome too, e.g., Up Arrow can't bring you to beginning of text (gotta use Apple + Left, which is also "Back" command... can be confusing).