On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:39 +0800, Ronda Brown wrote: > On 26/04/2005, at 12:03 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > Hi WAMUGers, > > > > After following the issues people have been experiencing with WestNet. > > I have been in touch with WestNet Management and informed them of the > > problems we have with them. > > Hi WAMUGers, > > WestNet Management got back to me yesterday with the results of their > Investigation into the issues we were concerned about. > > I've itemized their answers to my questions for your information: > > 1. Near 100 percent cpu activity when viewing this page on a 1.8GHz G5 > iMac.
[snip] > I have heard that flash movies can perform badly on macs though I was > not aware of any of ours doing so. Like she says "Flash player 7 for > Mac OS X is still very processor intensive" this is a known issue > between mac and macromedia so there may not be anything we can do about > it. I've seen this on slower Windows PCs and Linux systems too. It appears to be directly related to the amount and frequency of drawing the flash animation is doing. At a guess, the flash is trying to draw x frames every second, instead of drawing a frame, waiting x milliseconds, and drawing another frame. The former approach will mean that slower systems will be unable to "keep up" and the flash will gobble all the system's CPU time. If I'm right about what's going on, changing the timing metho should work fine. > From their Web Team: > "Too much flash" I don't think we use much flash at all and we are > always very careful ensuring our flash movies are quick to download and > quite often they are smaller then creating a similar banner as > an animated gif." It's not download times people are having a problem with, it's CPU time during execution. -- Craig Ringer
