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06-01-2006, 08:42 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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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.
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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
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06-01-2006, 09:07 PM
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The Nth Doctor
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Quote:
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
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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
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06-01-2006, 09:11 PM
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Widgeteer
Group: Forum Leaders
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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.
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06-01-2006, 09:26 PM
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Minδ pidδn pavuista!
Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Sunshine Coast
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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!
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06-01-2006, 09:44 PM
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Widgeteer
Group: Forum Leaders
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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?
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06-01-2006, 10:01 PM
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Minδ pidδn pavuista!
Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Sunshine Coast
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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.
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09-02-2006, 09:36 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere with beers
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Post screenshots of your dashboard.
Heres mine.
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09-02-2006, 09:56 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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And Mine 
yeh, yeh, i know... my battery is rooted! LOL |
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09-02-2006, 10:02 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Chasing rainbows
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09-02-2006, 10:06 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Wellington, NSW
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You drive a left hand drive??
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09-02-2006, 10:11 PM
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Location: SunnyCoast.au
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Graham, you are a funny man.
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02-06-2006, 01:32 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Perth, WA
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what's that widget with the country locator called?
also, does anyone else in perth sometimes question the accuracy of perth's temps on that standard temperature widget that comes with tiger? it's usually not even close to what bom.gov.au says
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02-06-2006, 01:45 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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bolle the default weather widget is inaccurate for all of Australia, try Weather Australia instead.
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02-06-2006, 01:54 PM
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Group: Forum Leaders
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Mine right now:
There's a few other things I use, but I don't keep them all open. |
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02-06-2006, 02:04 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Wow! that's lava lamp looks GREAT! Where'd you find that one?
edit: but seriously, what's the keyboard?
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