[DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow
Hello everyone, I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and myPC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness. What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files. Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled? Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions? I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362. I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me...Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
[DQSD-Users] Amazon search
Here is a suggestion for an enhancement of the
amazon search.
It always bothered me that it only searches in the
.com shop, while I want to search in the .de shop most of the time. So in the
pastI just modified the source of the search directly, which just isn't
really satisfactory.
Well, to make long story short, I have added an
option to the amazon search which is called /domain and it takes as an argument
a specific amazon domain to search in.
Currently, the following domains can be specified:
com de uk jp ca fr where com is the default, so
if you use the search as before, it should behave exactly the
same.
Anyway, with this switch, I was able to make a
handy alias like:
amazde|amaz %s /domain:de
No more editing of the source code :)
I have noticed, however, that the other domains don't really support the
mode-parameters (dvd, vhs, ...) like the com-domain, so the other switches will
probably only make sense for .com
I have also taken the liberty of refactoring the
search to remove some code duplication :)
Find it attached
Thanks,Wolfgang
search function=amaz
nameamazon.com/name
description
Search specific stores on amazon.com. Searches all stores by default.br/
div class=helpboxDescLabelsSwitches:/div
table class=helpboxDescTable
trtd/domain:extension/tdtd - /tdtdSearch in specific country by domain-extension. Possible values: com de uk jp ca fr (com is the default)/td/tr
trtd/books/tdtd - /tdtdBooks/td/tr
trtd/music/tdtd - /tdtdPopular Music/td/tr
trtd/mp3/tdtd - /tdtdMusic Downloads/td/tr
trtd/classical/tdtd - /tdtdClassical Music/td/tr
trtd/dvd/tdtd - /tdtdDVDs/td/tr
trtd/vhs/tdtd - /tdtdVHS Tapes/td/tr
trtd/movies/tdtd - /tdtdLocal Movie Showtimes/td/tr
trtd/restaurants/tdtd - /tdtdRestaurants/td/tr
trtd/toys/tdtd - /tdtdToys/td/tr
trtd/baby/tdtd - /tdtdBaby Products/td/tr
trtd/computers/tdtd - /tdtdPC Hardware/td/tr
trtd/software/tdtd - /tdtdPC Software/td/tr
trtd/games/tdtd - /tdtdVideo Games/td/tr
trtd/electronics/tdtd - /tdtdElectronics/td/tr
trtd/cellular/tdtd - /tdtdCellular Phones/td/tr
trtd/photography/tdtd - /tdtdCamera amp; Photography/td/tr
trtd/tools/tdtd - /tdtdTools amp; Hardware/td/tr
trtd/magazines/tdtd - /tdtdMagazines/td/tr
trtd/garden/tdtd - /tdtdOutdoor Living/td/tr
trtd/kitchen/tdtd - /tdtdKitchen/td/tr
trtd/travel/tdtd - /tdtdTravel/td/tr
trtd/outlet/tdtd - /tdtdOutlet/td/tr
trtd/auctions/tdtd - /tdtdAuctions/td/tr
trtd/zshops/tdtd - /tdtdzShops/td/tr
trtd/scientific/tdtd - /tdtdSci. Supplies/td/tr
trtd/medical/tdtd - /tdtdMed. Supplies/td/tr
trtd/industrial/tdtd - /tdtdIndust. Supplies/td/tr
trtd/cars/tdtd - /tdtdCar Parts/td/tr
trtd/home/tdtd - /tdtdHome Furnishings/td/tr
trtd/lifestyle/tdtd - /tdtdLifestyle/td/tr
trtd/pets/tdtd - /tdtdPet Toys/td/tr
trtd/arts/tdtd - /tdtdArts and Hobbies/td/tr
/table
div class=helpboxDescLabelsExamples:/div
table class=helpboxDescTable
trtdamaz moxy fruvous /music/td/tr
trtdamaz harry potter /books/td/tr
/table
/description
categoryShopping/category
linkhttp://www.amazon.com//link
contributorDan Sanderson, Ryan Edwards/contributor
form name=amazf
action=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search;
method=get
input type=hidden name=mode/
input type=hidden name=keyword/
input type=hidden name=tag value=dqsd-20/
/form
script![CDATA[
// Contains known amazon domains that are searchable
// If you add, make sure to keep the extra first and last blank in the string
var domains= com de uk jp ca fr ;
function amaz(q)
{
var defaultDomain=com;
if( nullArgs(amaz, q) )
return false;
document.amazf.action = http://www.amazon.+defaultDomain+/exec/obidos/external-search;;
document.amazf.mode.value = blended;
var args = parseArgs(q, domain, books, music, classical-music, music-dd, mp3, dvd, video, vhs, movies, theatrical, restaurants, toys, baby, computers, pc-hardware, software, games, electronics, photography, tools, magazines, garden, kitchen, travel, cellular, wireless-phones, outlet, auctions, zshops, scientific, medical, industrial, cars, home, lifestyle, pets, arts);
if( q == )
openSearchWindow(http://www.amazon.+defaultDomain);
else if( args.switches.length = 1 args.switches.length = 2)
{
for (var i = 0; i args.switches.length; i++)
{
sw = args.switches[i];
switch(sw.name)
{
case domain:
if (sw.value== || domains.match( +sw.value+ ) != +sw.value+ )
{
nullArgs(amaz,?);
return false;
}
domain = sw.value;
if (domain == uk || domain == jp)
domain = co. + domain;
document.amazf.action = http://www.amazon.+domain+/exec/obidos/external-search;;
break;
case movies:
document.amazf.mode.value = theatrical; break;
case video:
[DQSD-Users] Message size.
Hi DQSD users, I have already posted on this issue once before. I just got a 321 kb sized email which has 2-3 posts and a big bunch of this crap. This is in reference to the digest mode of the mailing list - (DQSD-Users digest, Vol 1 #245). sZupW3WnCpFFKnTYNMqTUWcD6CwImj4PtorCoy4qgjvlKbKkCqOW+Vs2ddVCqbCJHl95PSKa sZupW3WnCpFFKnTYNMqTUWcD6CwImj4PtorCoy4qgjvlKbKkCqOW+67UI E9GqU0yzGisSmiiIYCpmLD6Aox1REcZwQbfN3vs7WB71f/V3Pp6PZ2sD3q/+rufT0tImvMXL Ai3H I also get a lot of html tags and I have asked for plain text messages. I do not know what to do with this, isn't the sourceforge list supposed to cut out any unnecessary tags, encryption, etc... It is quite a big nuisance especially so since I use dial-up connections. Is anyone else also experiencing this? If so how did you get around this other than unsubscribe? Sharad. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com ___ DQSD-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
RE: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow
Yeah, certainly doesn't sound like memory is your problem. I have no idea why it is slowing you down. -Dan -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:58 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [dqsd] RE: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow Hi Dan, thanks for your comments. I don't think it's memory. I didn't reboot but turned dqsd on and off to take down my numbers. I have 512MB physical memory. Task manager shows 197364 / 884604 without dsdq running and 203144 / 884604 when it's running. Explorer takes up 16788 w/o dqsd and 20796 w/ dqsd. Stefano Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question I have ishow much memory do you have?How much is being used? Open your Task Manager. In the lower left hand corner of the Performance page, how much memorydoes it sayby "Mem Usage:"? Is that number very close to your total RAM? Is it higher than your total RAM? If so, you are probably experiencing slowness from using the cache often. Now switch to your Processes tab and find explorer.exe. How much memory isexplorer.exe using? If youwant to know how much DQSD is impacting you, close the DQSD search bar and reboot. Now check the memory used by explorer.exe again, and note the difference. For me, I go from about 6 megs in explorer.exe without DQSDto 16 megs when I load DQSD. So, DQSD impacts me about 10 megs of memory. But, with plenty of RAM it doesn'tslow my machine down. If you are running tight on memory, DQSD and anything else that takes up memory will slow your system down. You may need to get rid of DQSD or something else- or get more memory. Of course, your problem could be something else. But, it's worth looking at. -Dan -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [dqsd] [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow Hello everyone, I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and myPC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness. What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files. Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled? Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions? I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362. I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me... Do you Yahoo!?HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now Do you Yahoo!?HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
RE: [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow
i'm not sure if this is relevant, but i had lots of trouble on 2 win2k sp3 machines running zonealarm. zonealarm cause random reboots on the slower pentium machine and explorer lockups on the fasterathlonXP machine. i switched to outpost firewall and don't have any problems at all. of course, i switched a few dqsd versions back. check system tools event viewer application and system events -- if you have a bunch of vector service errors, perhaps switching firewalls will help. this is just a semi-educated guess. hope it helps. --db -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SGPSent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 4:37 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [DQSD-Users] dqsd makes my PC very slow Hello everyone, I hate to say this because I really value dqsd, but I'm more and more convinced that it makes my PC very slooow at times, to the point that I'm seriously considering to uninstall dsdq. At the moment, I've just closed the bar and myPC seems to be back to its normal speed and responsiveness. What I noticed is that with dqsd enabled, IE and Explorer too "stutter" and block for long times for apparently no reason. I can't understand what's going on. I'd like to dig further into it, but I probably lack the necessary technical expertise. I think I could handle running a debug version of dqsd if someone told me how to, and collecting log files. Has anyone else noticed their PC became slow with dqsd enabled? Can anyone give me general performance improvement suggestions? I'm running win2k SP3 (but noticed this with SP2 too), IE 6.0.2800.1106, dqsd 3.1.4.0, ZoneAlarm 2.6.362. I sure hope I won't have to depart from dqsd because without it the web has truly become more limited for me... Do you Yahoo!?HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
[DQSD-Users] RE: dqsd: updates to calendar. Translations. 1 question.
Harry, Great! I've checked in your changes. Thanks for your help Glenn -Original Message- From: Harry-Anton Talvik [mailto:harry-anton;gmx.net] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dqsd: updates to calendar. Translations. 1 question. Hi David and Glenn While I have to contact one of dqsd project admins anyway, I'll send my updates right away. Basically there is one major one: user can choose now which day is the first one in a week (here in Estonia we are used to see that Monday is the first one; maybe Robinson on his island likes it turn to Friday..). So, calendar.js and preferences.js got modified (latest ones from CVS). Other things are translations -- modified is strings.js and new file is holiday.et.xml (seems that xml parser doesn't allow any weird characters like ü=uuml;, ä=auml;, õ=otlide;, even comma (,) is not allowed). Hope somebody has time to put those files to CVS. I currently don't apply for a developer status. One question too: preferences.js Rev 1.48 -- Why localprefs.js was refactored _out_? Where should I store now my local settings, for example for 'clockshortform' (and for new one -- 'weekStartDay')? Best regards, Harry-Anton -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com ___ DQSD-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
RE: [DQSD-Users] Amazon search
Wolfgang, One thing you might consider is using the global variable 'language' to set the correct domain. 'language' should be set to the ISO code for the current language if that helps. Glenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:dqsd-users-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Wolfgang@Home Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DQSD-Users] Amazon search Here is a suggestion for an enhancement of the amazon search. It always bothered me that it only searches in the .com shop, while I want to search in the .de shop most of the time. So in the past I just modified the source of the search directly, which just isn't really satisfactory. Well, to make long story short, I have added an option to the amazon search which is called /domain and it takes as an argument a specific amazon domain to search in. Currently, the following domains can be specified: com de uk jp ca fr where com is the default, so if you use the search as before, it should behave exactly the same. Anyway, with this switch, I was able to make a handy alias like: amazde|amaz %s /domain:de No more editing of the source code :) I have noticed, however, that the other domains don't really support the mode-parameters (dvd, vhs, ...) like the com-domain, so the other switches will probably only make sense for .com I have also taken the liberty of refactoring the search to remove some code duplication :) Find it attached Thanks, Wolfgang --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com ___ DQSD-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
