Should have is a relative term, however. Rereading your first sentence reminded me that I was putting quite a load on the system besides DMX. Here at IBM (my location) everyone but me in our project group is an AS/400 person of one kind or another. I am the sole PC guy, Web developer/designer/tester/scripter and to top it off, graphics "creative." So, at any given time I might have DMX, Photoshop (for raster images), Corel Draw (for vector work), WebTools Pro (a VERY nice tool, BTW), Screen Calipers, Antechinus JavaScript Editor, Lotus Notes, Lotus SameTime, NoteTab Pro (sh*t fast, therefore my View Source editor), TopStyle Pro, CSE HTML Validator Pro, AceFTP 3 Pro, TreePad Business Edition 7 (for documenting, planning, etc.), Palm Desktop, MWSnap (screengrabs), Outlook Express, PowerDesk Pro 5, numerous instances of various browsers, at least two AS/400 5250 ("green screen") sessions, and of course the background anti-virus, firewall, InfoPrint Manager, asset management, and other resource hogging crap that everyone at IBM must run according to policy.
I suppose that, under the circumstances, I should be glad that that poor little Celeron didn't give up a small squeak and fall over dead under the load. OTOH, DMX was the only app out of that list... well, that and PowerDesk Pro, that showed a significant increase in response time at full load. Hmmm... come to think of it, both had panes open (files/site for DMX, folder for PDPro) which were connected to the IFS on AS/400 our server in Rochester, NY. (we're in Cincinnati), which might charitably be accused of having "less than optimal" response time. If either/both attempted to refresh the information in those panes upon receiving focus, that plus the relatively lower performance envelope of the Celeron might explain the pisspoor response time of both apps when switching back to them.
Cheers, Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl D Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:55 AM
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I'd look to see what else you have running because I've never had that sort
of problem with Dreamweaver. Even on 512 before upgrading the Toshiba Tablet
m205 I use I never had those sort of delays and I always have at least 3
programs open. Usually my machines will have Outlook 2003, Fireworks,
Dreamweaver, TopStyle Pro, Firefox, IE and Trillian.
Sometimes Word, FrontPage and OE will be thrown into the mix along with Snagit.
My machine has a 1.5 Centrino in it. Since I frequently use Virtual PC I've
upgraded my ram to handle that task. I also run MX 2004 suite.
Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer Microsoft FrontPage MVP http://wiserways.com Office: 713-353-0139
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Nope, sorry, "slim" would not be an adjective I would apply. ;-) I'm using
Dreamweaver Studio MX (mostly Dreamweaver MX, actually), and DMX is still a
hog. On my former Toshiba Satellite with a 1.5 GHz Celeron, 256 kb L2 cache,
512 MB RAM it could take 3-5 seconds to accept the focus after switching
back to it from another app. The basic solution is to throw resources at it.
On my new IBM ThinkPad with a 1.8 GHz Pentium M, 1 MB L2 cache, and 1 GB RAM, it actually responds with pretty fair alacrity and no discernible delays. I personally suspect that it is the processor and cache that make the difference, but I can't state that unequivocally.
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