TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler? DON

[EDLYNN]

Don-

Thanks for the curiousity chase.

IE7 comes on with Yahoo, Google, Weather Channel and perhaps a miriad of 
background runners. My attention was called to the lack  of RAM when I tried 
to open my new scanning program,  and was errored that there was 
insufficient memory available. This was the first time for this message 
since way back!!!
 I cleaned up my visible Start menu and it hasn't happened again.

ED

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Penlington" <deepend at tpg.com.au>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler?


> Ian wrote:
>>i just opened ie let it sit for 2 minutes on
>>www.yahoo.com only that one tab open and it's sitting at 45,880k and using
>>35-45% cpu use.>>
>
>
> And Russ wrote:
>
> <<I have IE7 open with 5 tabs (5 separate web pages). It is consuming 
> 4008k,
> > about 4 MB memory.>>
>
> I don't know if this is any help, but I have Maxthon which is an IE-based
> browser using IE6. (I've no wish to update to IE7 yet).
>
> When I open 4 web pages, Maxthon sits on about 4500-4800 Kb of memory and
> zero CPU usage. If I open MSN search page as a 5th tab, memory usage 
> shoots
> up to 12000-14000Kb and remains there. CPU usage remains on zero, after
> jumping momentarily to 2%. When I close MSN, memory usage goes back to
> 4500-4800Kb.
>
> All pages are static--ie fully loaded but lying idle.
>
> It seems therefore that the web site you have open may well affect the
> amount of memory consumed quite drastically.
>
> I've often thought that some sites seem to need a lot more browser/CPU
> grunt than others, but until sparked by curiosity after reading your
> emails, I'd never before bothered to investigate. I've no idea why this
> should be.
> Ian--are you certain the pages are fully loaded? Perhaps you'd suspect it
> with sites like Yahoo--who are probably using push technology which would
> create a lot of unseen firewall activity. This, in turn, would be
> communicating with the browser, thus it shows up as browser usage.
> Maybe---I'm just guessing.
>
> If all sites, regardless of color or creed, are consuming inordinate
> amounts of memory or CPU resources, then there are probably deeper
> underlying issues on the individual computer.  (eg Nortons security suites
> would be a primary suspect).
>
> I don't know whether the various types of internet connection would have
> any bearing on this subject.
>
> To answer Ed's original query, nothing I've read indicates anything
> inherent in IE7 by which might be regarded as a resource hog.
>
> Don Penlington
>
>
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