[iSlayer]

paxton i notice your running an old version of sysstat.there is an update on my site if you want it

[mvjs]

Well heres my dashboard

[marc]

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HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Btw, there's a much newer version of AusTV than you have shown there.

[Ozi]

haha yeah I have got it now, thanks marc. Heres my new Widget screenie - click to enlarge.

[cMac]

Hey guys,

First post... How'd you get the BOM radar widget? I have been trying to work this out for ages!

Cheers

[Wheels]

Hi,

I have seen a few ppl with a widget that has a webcam viewer and I was wondering where you got that one from???

Thanks,
Wheels8989

[marc]

Time to revive this thread!

Here's what I currently use on a regular basis.

[ethania05]

i noticed that some of the dashboards have hardly got any widgets. I usually fill every screen space of widgets on there.

[applecollector]

Well my new dashboard dashboard is located at www.applecollector.com/tigerpre/

[gmask1]

My question - serious - is whether having the widgets open actually reduces system performance. I've noticed that some of these widgets have pretty large real memory footprints, given they are sitting in the background 90% of the time. In a 512Mb system (even 1Gb depending on the apps), having 8 to 10 widgets running in 6-8Mb footprints can be a fairly large chuck of real memory, more than leaving Mail, Pages, or even MS Word.

As a World of Warcraft player, I've noticed that it will happily swallow up to 1Gb or more real memory, so perhaps when you're shutting down other apps before you start gaming, close the widgets as well. (Naturally, those of you with uber rigs that have a terrabyte of Ram can disregard my rambling...)

EDIT: That aside, I always have the BOM view of Melbourne and the Temperature widget for Scoresby open. Recently I've been planning a holiday to the US, and have also had some sticky notes with my rough ideas open as well.

[iSlayer]

Originally posted by gmask1@Jan 6 2006, 09:36 PM
My question - serious - is whether having the widgets open actually reduces system performance. I've noticed that some of these widgets have pretty large real memory footprints, given they are sitting in the background 90% of the time. In a 512Mb system (even 1Gb depending on the apps), having 8 to 10 widgets running in 6-8Mb footprints can be a fairly large chuck of real memory, more than leaving Mail, Pages, or even MS Word.

since widgets will be using inactive ram when dashboard is not active if another app needs the ram the widgets memory will be paged and given to the new app

[gmask1]

Originally posted by iSlayer@Jan 6 2006, 08:42 PM
since widgets will be using inactive ram when dashboard is not active if another app needs the ram the widgets memory will be paged and given to the new app

If the widget is on a cron or other timer, won't it get paged back in at that time?

EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't inactive ram still physical ram that could be used for other running applications; Real memory is the wired ram + active + inactive (= physical).

EDIT2: I massively overstated warcrafts usage before - when it's running, WoW seems to consume about 600Mb of real memory, most sitting in inactive

[marc]

RAM is probably the only thing I'd worry about with widgets. CPU isn't a huge issue unless you're running something that's dodgy.

[Goodbye]

Also another quick Q....why does it sometimes take my Dashboard more than 30 seconds to open if I haven't done so for a while?

Eg if I havent opened Dashboard, say, for 4 or 5 hours, it often takes up to a minute to open, tying up the system, not allowing me to do anything else until Dashboard is open?

Very frustrating!

[marc]

Sounds like the widgets are all being refreshed, or their memory is being loaded from a swap file on the HD. Perfectly normal.

You should be able to click on the desktop to hide dashboard and keep working while it sorts itself out.

How many widgets do you have running?

[Goodbye]

About 20 :\

Thing is, when this happens, I can't do anything, I have to wait for Dashboard to open. It totally locks up my whole system for that time.

[Starscream]

Post screenshots of your dashboard.

Heres mine.

[sunrisesister]

And Mine

yeh, yeh, i know... my battery is rooted! LOL

[Graham]

[feeze]

You drive a left hand drive??