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When I start FeedDemon everything's fine, but once I'm done reading I like to minimize it to the system tray in order to keep updated about new items. If I open FeedDemon from there after a long time (say one day), it shows an empty (white) browser area, freezes the computer for about 5 seconds and then shows the subscriptions in the browser area. During the time the computer is frozen, I cannot move the mouse.
Is this reproducible by you and/or intended behavior?
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| Posted 4/13/2008 10:00:55 AM |
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| I have the same issue. I have reported it in the past and it has something to do with the load on the video card. I notice it when using my laptop with a 2nd monitor. If I am only using the laptop screen then I do not have the same problem.
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| Posted 4/13/2008 10:18:54 AM |
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| Load on the video card? That sounds odd. I don't see this behavior with any other program (I'm running quite a lot) and I don't use a 2nd monitor. My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS/XT (256 MB) and I have 2GB of RAM on XP Pro.
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| Posted 4/13/2008 11:50:00 PM |
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| it's not the video card - it happens whenever FD is swapped out of ram. You could load a big virtual machine and the next time you click on FD it'll happen. It bugs me occasionally, but I'm not sure if this is Nick's fault or not. Maybe FD is doing some major work in the window_activate method that needs to load everything out of the swapfile, and the OS waits for that method to return before un-freezing the system? It's a weird one.
Please note that I am not actually employed by NewsGator, and my opinions should not be taken as their official stance on any matter. I'm just a happy FD user (since pre-1.0 alpha in 2003) helping out where I can.
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| Posted 4/14/2008 12:48:43 AM |
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| But how come it freezes the system? I can understand that it would freeze the program - lots of programs take a while to load if you haven't used them for a while, but the system? Weird thing is that I don't see a CPU spike when it happens either.
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| Posted 4/14/2008 2:39:48 AM |
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nah but you will see your HDD thrashing. I don't know what API FeedDemon is blocking, but it's loading everything while blocking it. I've also seen something similar when clicking on a new feed, if FeedDemon has been open but not the active app for ages. My guess is it's related to loading MSXML back into ram but that's just wild speculation based on when I've seen it.
I always figured it was a windows issue so didn't report it, but having been thinking about memory usage at work recently I realise it could possibly be avoided.
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| Posted 4/14/2008 12:51:46 PM |
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| I believe what you're seeing is due to FeedDemon "flushing" all loaded feeds from memory when you minimize the application, and then re-loading some of that feed data when you restore the application so that it can rebuild the "Subscription" report. You can verify whether this is the problem by displaying something other than the Subscription report, then minimizing and restoring the application. Of course, I didn't expect that this would freeze everything for several seconds. How many feeds (approx) do you have displayed on the Subscription report?
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| Posted 4/14/2008 2:45:10 PM |
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| Almost 50 feeds displayed in that screen. I will try to minimize with a different tab tonight and open tomorrow morning and see how it differs.
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| Posted 4/14/2008 4:45:21 PM |
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| I have 130 feeds total. I almost never use the subscription report, but then I don't see the issue much anymore now that I'm using FD soley on my beefy work machine with 3gb ram. So you don't flush regular newspapers? How about if I restore FD and immediately click a different feed or folder - would that trigger it? Might be best to let the OS handle the memory, or at least reload the data on a background thread 
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| Posted 4/15/2008 12:24:00 AM |
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| Just FYI: FD showed the same behavior this morning - 7 seconds freeze (couldn't move the mouse). The tab that was open only showed 1 Dilbert cartoon in Newspaper view.
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