What are Party/skins doing after you close them? - Page 2

Graham · #11 01-15-2005, 10:02 PM

I run NIS plus a bunch other security stuff I hardly know how to use. No problems...just the small screeen for a few secs.

StellarWind · #12 01-16-2005, 03:37 AM

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So, you close Party or skins, and that stupid splash screen comes up and won't go away for several minutes. During that time it's hogging CPU like crazy: 97% lots of times.

Anyone know if it's doing anything useful? Or is it a bug?

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You must be one of the data miners.

It's writing your gigantic player notes file from process memory back onto the hard drive. Not a bug.

goodguy_1 · #13 01-16-2005, 05:21 AM

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It's writing your gigantic player notes file from process memory back onto the hard drive. Not a bug.

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any way to remedy this?..thnx for the heads up

Hung · #14 01-16-2005, 07:29 AM

I don't have this problem either. I have norton 2004 and MCAfee desktop firewall.
Everything closes right away. I also have pretty big txt files.
My computer is 1.5 years old. But still very fast. Does the popup uses RAM or CPU?
Do you have enough RAM or CPU to deal with all the processes so it can close?

goodguy_1 · #15 01-16-2005, 07:34 AM

each skin when closed will use 50%+ of cpu resources and just hang forever so you need to manually close the exe.file.I have 2GB's of RAM.

Hung · #16 01-16-2005, 07:38 AM

2G RAM??
WOW, why do you need so much RAM? Maybe you have too much RAM. A long time ago when I was obsessed by computers I read on a forum that too much RAM can slow down your PC. Maybe he was wrong, but 2G RAM is a lot. I have 512 RAM.

StellarWind · #17 01-16-2005, 12:14 PM

Mine only take about 1-2 minutes and then the process terminates properly. It's a little annoying but no big deal. If your file is larger or your computer (or disk drive) is slower it might take a lot longer.

One thing you can do is remove the big notes.txt file from the folder before you startup. You don't need notes to data mine. Of course that solution doesn't help you when you are actually playing.

At the minimum you can do this once to convince yourself that the notes file is your problem.

Short logins (say 2 minutes) don't suffer from this problem. If the client doesn't have enough time to read the entire input file before it exits, it won't write it back out.

Good luck. Please post back if you learn something different from what I just told you.

Benjamin · #18 01-16-2005, 01:12 PM

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You must be one of the data miners.

It's writing your gigantic player notes file from process memory back onto the hard drive. Not a bug.

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I do datamine. I wondered if the notes files were the culprit.

Do the others having this problem datamine and export large notes on each player?

If this is the problem, I guess reducing the amount of notes per player might help some.

I'll try to confirm this is what's going on today and I'll post back.

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ctv1116 · #19 01-16-2005, 05:23 PM

Yes, notes files are the culprit. I had a long notes file that I wasn't using. Then I deleted it, and the problems went away.

Benjamin · #20 01-16-2005, 07:34 PM

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Yes, notes files are the culprit. I had a long notes file that I wasn't using. Then I deleted it, and the problems went away.

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Yep, I did a couple of experiments to accertain that the notes were indeed the issue.

So, you don't use the notes any more? Do you use Player View instead? The exported notes have some nice detail, so I hate to get rid of them.

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