Taedrin
Gallente
Mercatoris Technologies
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Posted - 2007.04.12 20:25:00 -
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Edited by: Taedrin on 12/04/2007 20:24:44
 Originally by: Alha Qmar
Stop watching ****, seriously it must be a whole bunch of spyware on your computer.
That was (is) a clean install of Windows. What happened was the following:
1) I start up IE 7
2) Immediately create a new tab
3) Send first tab to go to google
4) Send second tab to go to EVE forums
5) Start EVEmon
all before IE 7 finishes loading itself into memory
Then - IE 7 becomes unresponsive - it fails to load any web pages. EVEmon also fails to load. Computer becomes sluggish. I Ctrl+Alt+Del to open Task Manager - wait 2-3 minutes as the computer tries to find the resources necessary to do such a task. Task Manager eventually opens. I sort processes by CPU consumption. I notice that IE isn't really eating that much CPU, and not too much memory. I then notice that IE's portion of the swap file is at 1GB and steadily increasing. I take a screen shot and end task.
IE is forced to release it's resources, and EVEmon immediately finishes loading. Internet after that was all borked up - EVEmon couldn't connect to EVE, and IE once restarted can't even find it's way to www.google.com. I open up a command prompt and successfully ping both my gateway and the DNS servers. Meaning that my ISP, and network settings were working fine. Probably some sort of Windows resource was not released properly (perhaps something involving HTTP connections?) and all programs which required an HTTP connection were waiting for the resource to become available.
IMO, I think what happened was there was some sort of resource conflict between IE 7 and EVEmon. Because of crappy M$ programming techniques, this uncovered an infinite loop involving a memory leak. I don't think that it would be likely for EVEmon to be able to cause IE 7 to have a memory leak, since EVEmon shouldn't be able to access IE 7's executable info (without causing a segfault, at least).
EDIT: I'm still waiting for an obligatory DS response. And yes, I should be using Firefox, but my Dad only wanted IE 7 on this computer, so that's what I did.
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