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From: J Burns on 23 May 2010 11:48 Mike Rosenberg wrote: > Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > >> J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >>> I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a way >>> to keep them from loading and running? >> Try PithHelmet. >> >> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158 > > Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure, > they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash > animations in terms of CPU usage. > I googled and found that even people with dual-core Intels have trouble. OS X doesn't handle them well. I think it depends on the number of pixels, the frame rate, and how many are on a page. If I open a forum page where somebody has posted ten times with an avatar that's a 60k-pixel animated GF, I'll get beach balls.
From: Jolly Roger on 23 May 2010 11:50 In article <1jixzkn.1hpm7ul1sabas2N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > > > J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > > > I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a way > > > to keep them from loading and running? > > > > Try PithHelmet. > > > > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158 > > Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure, > they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash > animations in terms of CPU usage. I seem to recall CPU load issues related to animated GIFs in older versions of Safari. Those bugs have long been fixed. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 23 May 2010 11:59 In article <htbino$7hc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Mike Rosenberg wrote: > > Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > > > >> J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > >>> I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a way > >>> to keep them from loading and running? > >> Try PithHelmet. > >> > >> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158 > > > > Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure, > > they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash > > animations in terms of CPU usage. > > > I googled and found that even people with dual-core Intels have trouble. > OS X doesn't handle them well. I think it depends on the number of > pixels, the frame rate, and how many are on a page. If I open a forum > page where somebody has posted ten times with an avatar that's a > 60k-pixel animated GF, I'll get beach balls. When I open this page on my dual quad-core Intel Xeon Mac Pro, the animations start immediately, and Safari uses only 8.6% CPU: <http://lee.org/reading/general/Hampsterdance/> On my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, the same page uses around 11.6% CPU. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: J Burns on 23 May 2010 12:35 Jolly Roger wrote: > In article <1jixzkn.1hpm7ul1sabas2N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > >> Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: >> >>> J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >>>> I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a way >>>> to keep them from loading and running? >>> Try PithHelmet. >>> >>> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158 >> Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure, >> they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash >> animations in terms of CPU usage. > > I seem to recall CPU load issues related to animated GIFs in older > versions of Safari. Those bugs have long been fixed. > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2053271 Here's a user who last August had a quad-core Mac with Leopard and still got beach balls. He found an improvement with Snow Leopard, but another Snow Leopard user still had trouble.
From: J Burns on 23 May 2010 12:36
Jolly Roger wrote: > In article <htbino$7hc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > >> Mike Rosenberg wrote: >>> Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>> I haved a PPC with Tiger. Animated GIFs can hog my CPU. Is there a way >>>>> to keep them from loading and running? >>>> Try PithHelmet. >>>> >>>> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18158 >>> Agreed about PithHelmet, but are animated GIFs really a CPU hog? Sure, >>> they can be really annoying, but AFAIK they're nothing like Flash >>> animations in terms of CPU usage. >>> >> I googled and found that even people with dual-core Intels have trouble. >> OS X doesn't handle them well. I think it depends on the number of >> pixels, the frame rate, and how many are on a page. If I open a forum >> page where somebody has posted ten times with an avatar that's a >> 60k-pixel animated GF, I'll get beach balls. > > When I open this page on my dual quad-core Intel Xeon Mac Pro, the > animations start immediately, and Safari uses only 8.6% CPU: > > <http://lee.org/reading/general/Hampsterdance/> > > On my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, the same page uses around 11.6% CPU. > 65% with my PPC. I call that tolerable. |