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[kny3twalker]

I also have notcied alot of temporary lock ups with navigating the menus
where Sage will stop responding for a good 20 second or so
I am using SageTV (non client though)
so it is probably just a general UI issue

[pawn]

I will throw my hat in to say I've seen more than a few little flaky things that aren't regular enough to report.

As far as the temporary lockups, I've seen them routinely and I would attribute them to the system paging. It may be a Java thing, but there's some definite bloat ocurring in the system.

[kny3twalker]

oh definitely
I restart my computer PF is around 200 with sage in task bar
I went a week without and it was at over 800
What the hell is that, 800
sorry for the bluntness but damn!
I am sitting there running spybot and searching Google since no one else has brought this up
I did do a install of .15 over .14 so maybe I will uninstall and redo everything right before 2 retail comes out, maybe
glad I am not the only one
but slow down computer is SageTV now
probably this bloat is causing the stuttering video and lag when navigating
systems with less memory (I got 768) probably just lock up
mine is just barely able to recover
WOW thanks for making me fell better but angry that I did not mention this before
going to post in beta forum now

[TunaBoo]

You are writing hundreds of gigs to your HD. Your page file is going to fill up due to caching, doesn't mean anything is wrong.

[kny3twalker]

is the only way to clear it out is to restart then ????
even when Sage is not recording the PF is really high and just rises by the day
what would be a reasonable solution?
seems excessive to not have the PF usage reduce when not recording and I have only one tuner so it only records one show at a time

[TunaBoo]

Don't use your computer and the PF won't grow...

Anything you do is going to be cached and eventually increase the PF...

Does it slow down your computer that much? If it does buy more ram. If not, don't worry about it...

[kny3twalker]

buy more ram, yeah I got 3/4 of a GB, most seem run with less and are fine
never had PF usage problems before Sage, when playing video games, listening to music, playing a DVD, watching TV with WinTV so more also not an option because my four slots are full

[pawn]

Originally posted by pawn
I will throw my hat in to say I've seen more than a few little flaky things that aren't regular enough to report.

As far as the temporary lockups, I've seen them routinely and I would attribute them to the system paging. It may be a Java thing, but there's some definite bloat ocurring in the system.

I made this comment while I was still running version 2.0.14.

I have since upgraded to 2.0.15, and the memory usage is even greater.

*BUT*

Sage is running much smoother now, without any paging or weird freezes, etc. I have lots of RAM, so I say memory usage be damned, but I wonder how Sage is working for someone with 256MB or less?

[pawn]

Originally posted by pawn
I will throw my hat in to say I've seen more than a few little flaky things that aren't regular enough to report.

As far as the temporary lockups, I've seen them routinely and I would attribute them to the system paging. It may be a Java thing, but there's some definite bloat ocurring in the system.

I made this comment while I was still running version 2.0.14.

I have since upgraded to 2.0.15, and the memory usage is even greater.

*BUT*

Sage is running much smoother now, without any paging or weird freezes, etc. I have lots of RAM, so I say memory usage be damned, but I wonder how Sage is working for someone with 256MB or less?

[kny3twalker]

hey this thread was doing that to you also
I deleted my repeat