[flexcoders] High CPU usage redux

2009-05-28 Thread Tom McNeer
A couple of days ago, I posted a message regarding extremely high CPU usage in an application I was building. Eventually, I concluded that the problem was not the Flex app, but some other processes on the same machine. However, I have since found out that I was incorrect -- the problem was the

Re: [flexcoders] High CPU usage redux

2009-05-28 Thread Rick Winscot
Tom, Just a few quick points... you might already know but would be wise to cover for sake of maintaining history. Resources are allocated as components/controls/whatnot come into view. Your observation that your application footprint increased when touching creationPolicy is what one should

Re: [flexcoders] High CPU usage redux

2009-05-28 Thread Tom McNeer
Rick, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Rick Winscot rick.wins...@zyche.comwrote: Your observation that your application footprint increased when touching creationPolicy is what one should expect. Actually, I wasn't very clear: it wasn't that the application footprint increased (though

Re: [flexcoders] High CPU usage redux

2009-05-28 Thread Rick Winscot
Tom, After a little more poking around I found this issue in the Adobe bug-base for the Flash Player. http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1149 ...and... https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2009 It looks like the root cause isnĀ¹t with skinning but rather frame rate handling which could be

Re: [flexcoders] High CPU usage redux

2009-05-28 Thread Tom McNeer
Hi Rick, Thanks for the thorough explanation. Interesting to know more about the cause, though I sure hope they fix the bug. The problem is that while the application has focus cpu usage will be higher... So, I guess the real question is if cpu consumption while the application is active is