Ad taking 100% CPU

[brad jones]

I think it reflects badly against the company the ad is for when it doesnt run correctly. If they cant get an Ad to run correctly it would make me question their product quality. It would be better not to advertise in that case.

And that is why our sales people often pull the ads when we report them. I'm not sure what the deal is behind this one, but I did bring it to Joe's (Jupitermedia forum manager) attention again earlier today so he could push the issue once again.

Brad!

[timeshifter]

I caught that ad again, and it wasn't soaking up my entire proc, but it was pullin close to 50% between two cores... when I refreshed and got a new ad, usage dropped down to about 4%. That ad is still very processor heavy.

[mendhak]

The ad just caused my browser to crash after taking up a huge chunk of the CPU. 10:15 GMT. I've also attached the HTML source for the page before it.

I'm using Firefox 2. Windows 2003 Standard Edition with SP1.

[mendhak]

PS: This is the cheetah ad I'm talking about.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Just to add my two cents see what my cpu does with the intel ad...

[timeshifter]

I think Intel's just trying to prove to us that we all need to upgrade... they make the ads so proc-intensive that we either upgrade or stop visiting the forum...

[TheBigB]

Final decision;
my next processor will be AMD

[timeshifter]

Agreed.

Additional information about the ad: It seems to be okay while it's animating, but as soon as it hits the other screen that tells you your data is doubling every 18 months, CPU usage starts spiking... 100% on a dual-core proc. That's not good. Once the animations start again, it drops back down to normal usage.

I'd say just pull the ad. If they're doing that little to fix a clear problem, we don't need it to appear at all.

[penagate]

We can't just pull ads; we get them syndicated.

[timeshifter]

Then yell a little louder.

[kleinma]

Still an issue

[RobDog888]

Thats memory useage and not cpu usage. But I,ve had my IE open for several days at least and with several tabs open its onl 110K memory usage. So yours does sound high as you only have what? 2 t-3 tabs open?

[kleinma]

well if you look it is CPU usage also..

it is taking up 50% which is equal to taking up 100% of one core. IE is not a multicore enabled app, so it only runs in one single core, and is using all of that core. On a single core machine it would be 99-100%.

As soon as the CPU issue kicks in with this ad, is when the memory usage starts climbing. I can sit there and watch it in taskmanager slowly count up until my system slows down to a grinding hault.

It has to just be some sort of memory leak in their flash ad.. like its running a loop of some sort, and not freeing up resources...

[RobDog888]

Maybe the Intel Flash developer should go over to Internet.com's Flash site - flashkit.com for some assistance on resolving the resource usage issue.

[mendhak]

I'm getting this problem again. You've asked us for the HTML source of the page in the past when this happened, so I'm attaching it here.

The cheetah ad is taking 100% of my CPU. Can you not complain to them about this? It's been 5 months, the ads are back in rotation, but seemingly, nothing's changed. Mired in red tape?

[brad jones]

I'm getting this problem again. You've asked us for the HTML source of the page in the past when this happened, so I'm attaching it here.

Thanks

[RhinoBull]

It's not just a cheetah ad but HP/Intel as well.

[Senacharim]

You're using Firefox, right?
There is an extension called "Adblock Plus" which lets you selectively disable/block any particular content.

It is entirely possible (with a little experimenting) to completely block the sadi one specific ad.