Re: RAM and CPU hogging
Re: RAM and CPU hogging
- Subject: Re: RAM and CPU hogging
- From: Timothy Hellum <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:23:30 -0400
- Thread-topic: RAM and CPU hogging
Title: Re: RAM and CPU hogging
Ahem. Point(s) taken.
Fortunately, I am not in the web group and could do the Matrix bend as your missile came in. However, I will pass on your observations. Thanks for the time taken to look into the site.
And thank you also for the iCab suggestion. I will give it a try.
/timothy
On 18/7/07 11:08, entity "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> expostulated:
At 8:56 AM +0100 7/18/07, Simon Forster wrote:
>On 17 Jul 2007, at 21:49, Timothy Hellum wrote:
>
>>The issue I am finding is that ARD tells me the machines are routinely running at 98% CPU and 98% RAM usage. The problem is, the only apps running on them are the script (saved as an application), and Safari. After a few days of running like this, they sort of seize up (wouldn't you?) and either present the beachball, time out on the Applescript, or freeze altogether.
>
>Like others, I'd bet on Safari. Try shutting down and restarting Safari after a period of time. This should free up any memory that Safari isn't releasing. Possibly the easiest way to achieve this would be to have a global counter and when it hits 720, quit Safari (delay a few seconds, then carry on with "activate, set URL...").
You might also try a different browser. Here's your code adapted to iCab, which has a considerably smaller memory footprint than Safari.
set j to 1
on idle
global j
set lista to {"http://www.theglobeandmail.com", "http://www.reportonbusiness.com/", "http://www.globesports.com/"}
tell application "iCab"
Activate
OpenURL (item j of lista) toWindow -1
end tell
if j ≤ 2 then
set j to j + 1
else
set j to 1
end if
return 60
end idle
It also has built-in HTML validation, so you can tell which of those sites of yours has HTML errors, supposing you want to do something about it. I just checked and there are over 100 HTML encoding errors on theglobeandmail.com. Ouch. The page source says it's HTML 4.01 Transitional, so I set that standard in iCab to check against. Since you work there, you might want to look at that.
I just had a look at the source code for your newspaper's front page. I don't know what you do to generate that page, but it looks like a drunken monkey put it together. I saved the source in a file and numbered the lines. There are 2226 BLANK LINES in the source file *before* the code starts. Here's the chunk just before the beginning of the actual source code.
2224:
2225:
2226:
2227: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
2228: Transitional//EN"
2229: "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
2230:
2231: <html lang="en-ca">
2232: <head>
2233: <title>globeandmail.com: Canada's National
2234: Newspaper</title>
2235:
I was so intrigued by this that I wrote a script to count the blank lines (including ones with non-printing characters). And there's more. There are 12770 paragraphs total in the source file, and while I know processor power is cheap, the page load is slowed by the parser having to deal with all of these empty lines (mostly a bunch of useless tabs and a few blank spaces). There are ** 11,317 ** of those blank lines! Someone in your IT or Web services group needs a kick in the pants. Every globe reader's HTML parser is having to deal with tens of thousands of blank or (mostly) tab-filled lines.
So I wrote another script to strip out the lines that were blank or had just tabs and/or spaces. Guess what. The stripped page loads in less than half the time. The original source takes 12 seconds to *finish* loading in Safari on my PowerBook and the stripped source file finishes loading in 5 seconds.
I think you guys at the globe have some cleanup work to do. I wouldn't accept a system that turned out source files that looked like that. It's degrading your readers' experience on the site.
- web
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Timothy Hellum
Editorial IT Support
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com
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