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The MacRumors Forum Spy Widget (finally)

MacNut said:
Ok I had to shut off the Forum Spy Widget after having a slow down and pinpointing it to the forum widget sucking 120MB of memory and slowing my system to a crawl. Im not sure if this can be fixed but does it need to be pulling that much memory.
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It's not really doing anything beyond what the normal Forum Spy does. I imagine it uses RAM in the same manner. If that means sucking up too much RAM, well that kinda sucks. I haven't had much of a problem. You may just want to relaunch every couple of days if you leave it on all the time.
 
decksnap said:
It's not really doing anything beyond what the normal Forum Spy does. I imagine it uses RAM in the same manner. If that means sucking up too much RAM, well that kinda sucks. I haven't had much of a problem. You may just want to relaunch every couple of days if you leave it on all the time.
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Whoa i just checked mine, its sucking 210mb at the moment,

also I have to relaunch it about twice a day, because when I click on a link nothing happens (no safari window opens), so then I relaunch it and it works fine for a few more hours, and then the same story again.

Its really useful, would be cool if we could troubleshoot some of these problems. ( I reckon my problem might be related to the large amounts of ram it is using).
 
The good news is anybody can open the widget contents and mess with it if they know how to improve it.

Just for kicks, I relaunched Safari and ran the regular Forum Spy for the last hour or so. The RAM usage is about 120mb now and growing.
 
Running the regular Forum Spy often pushes my Safari RAM usage close to 800 MB. I only run Forum Spy when I'm not doing much else, so it doesn't bog down my system, but it is excessive.
 
hey I just got an idea... It would be great if one of you programming wizz'es could make a macrumors-widget that you could check the threads that you havesubscripted to! is this possible?
 
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