Re: Some websites cause CPU power to max out

Mopar_Mike:
Hello, Some websites (kfi640.com and radio station WCCO's player come
to mind) cause my oldish 1st generation G5 iMac to max out at 100%,
the fan goes to its highest speed, and the temperature goes up to 178
degrees F. And while I have no knowledge of computers (that's why I
own a Mac, right?) for some reason the word "Java" jumps in to my
head.

David Empson:
More likely that the word "Flash" is involved.

I thought my laptop's battery had suddenly halved in capacity. It turned
out to be due to a web site I'd left open which had some stupid and
seemingly minor Flash animation (probably in an advertisement) which had
maxed out one core on my MacBook Pro and was rapidly chewing through the
battery.

I had a quick look at http://www.wccoradio.com.

It makes heavy use of Flash on its web site. Safari on my MacBook Pro is
generally sitting at about 60% CPU usage just having this web page open
(both the main page and listening to the radio).

wccorradio uses about 30% of the CPU capacity on my MBP 17/2.6 GHz.*

I can't test kfi640.com because they don't allow access to its audio
stream outside the US.

This one also uses flash, but it demands only about 10% of my CPU
capacity.*

Something else happening on Mopar Mike's computer, maybe? Amount of
RAM? I have four GB.

* Also loaded, but idle in the background when I did my tests, were
Photoshop CS3, Acrobat 9 Pro, MS Excel, MS Entourage, and some smaller
apps.

Davoud

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