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My athlon 1400 is struggling to animate all those geared people and flying clocks in the ads. It's almost all computing time going there, text I'm typing right now is displayed on screen with about one second delay. Just thinking maybe it's not a Good Thing... Sure I can find a tool to disable ads, but I'm sure it's not goal of those who put them on in the first place.
Thanks for mentioning the greedy ad. We report these to our ad people so they can get the company providing the ad to revamp them. As such, reporting these ads is appreciated. (The mods also report these when they see them).
Brad!
When some of these Ads are displayedin the Page I can't even open a second Tab in FireFox. And when I am using IE I don't get the Popup menu itself. :(
I have a URL for the ad in question. I just managed to shut off the laptop fan and not pin procc's at 100% all day. Another one came up in its place and things are getting noisy again.
Seems like the system is running at very high speeds. The fan runs on high constantly, which isn't good. It seems like Kernel usage is also getting pinned at 100%. Closing FX and rebooting don't help.
Seems like I have to click a link, and then click it a second time before the page gets returned. Keyrate seems a little delayed, also.
I'm about to switch to the Vista drive, to check out the site using IE 7.0 Beta.
EDIT: Everything is smooth running in Vista, and temps are low. Might be some of the plug-ins installed with Fx.
EDIT2: Fx just crashed after trying to load a page. Also, major lags with access.
The Ad that says "Take Back Control" from IBM actually takes the control of the IE/FireFox. It just shoots up the CPU Utilization to above 60%. And right now I getting so irrated with this Ad, even if I referesh/logoff and login back, it still comes up on one of the pages.
Can we atleast have this particular Ad blocked alongwith the one that shows so many Clocks.
The problem seems to be with "2mdn.net" site that is overloaded it stops my pages from loading...the IBM add that takes up 1/4 witdh and almost full height of a 1280X1024 screen is TERRIBLE...give us a TEXT ONLY option for adds...loading all these adds in macromedia is terrible.
I was wondering why my system was seeming sluggish when I visited the forums. I checked and it often will peg my CPU at 100% usage. Clicking on the "Click Here to Expand Forum to Full Width" hides the ad, but the CPU usage still remains high.
I hope that this is resolved soon.
Best regards,
John
We are aware of this issue and it is being addressed. The ads causing the issue are served from a third-party, so it is a little more difficult for us to get them fixed. We will get this resolved today, one way or another.
Brad
Thanks alot Brad. :wave:
Thanks Brad...:thumb: :wave:
I don't know if it was fixed, or not, but since I've changed my processor priority back to normal, things have been working well. No crashes so far.
Thanks.
I've noticed the same thing. It's pretty hard not to notice when firefox takes up %97-%99 of CPU resources when the ads are open.
Seems to be ok once you click the "Click here to expand forum" link.
The ads were removed last night until the ad agency can get them fixed. If you see one show up that uses 100% resources again, let me know. (I already reported one that slipped through this morning, but I've not seen it again).
Brad!
Just saw "Take back control" big IMB ad on the right with fog that takes 100% of 3GHz P4.
Me too. I've already reported it, so it should go away soon too (until they get them fixed).Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
I'm continuing to watch for bad ads as well.
Thanks,
Brad!
It's not gone. Fx just crashed a minute ago. Seemed to be loading the main page, too.
EDIT: Arrgh! Crashed again on the VB page.
At 12:30 our ad guys reported it was removed. Should be gone now -- until it gets fixed.
Brad!
So far, so good :)
Thank you Mr Jones....The text ads are much better than the IBM "Cartoons"
Fx just crashed on a screen refresh after a few minutes. Not sure that it is the same problem. Will post back if it crashes again.
EDIT: Arrgh! Twice more within 3 minutes! Something is not right, still.
EDIT: 4 times in 45 minutes
All of those IBM ads I see make my CPU jump up to 100%.
The ads that on the side when browsing the forums.
"Take back control" is here yet...
Ad guys thought they were fixed... I've statedt that is not the case.
They are in the process of removing them again....
Brad
That's it. Too many crashes. Finally loaded IE 6.0 again, to see if that is the problem. Might have to clear the Fx Cache, too.
EDIT: 10 minutes later, IE crashed, and had a problem with the Flash.ocx. I went to Adobe's site, and found that I had the most recent version. Their page displayed correctly.
Brad Jones: I noticed that you've deleted my post just because I had a different solution to the problem than you. As moderator you should comment om posts like these insted of deleting them. I guess that 50 to 70% of the users have some kind of ad-block system installed on their machine.
After closing Fx for a while, I restarted, loaded a few tabs, and looked at the process meter. It's been about 5 minutes, but the fan JUST quieted down here.
IBM Info Mngmt Middleware ads still around and still killing the CPU :(
Take Back Control is back and its eating up my CPU. :(
I can undelete the messages and ban the posters for stating publicly how to violate the Acceptable Usage Policy of this site, or I can delete the messages and we can all move on.... My error was in not sending emails to all those that have suggested how to violate the AUP so they would personally know why their messages were removed -- I thought it was obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Large
I believe the issue we are dealing with is a Flash issue more so than an Ad issue. Our sales guys have been working with us to get this resolved. The ads come from a third party server so it has been more difficult than fixing ads we create or manage.
I have Task Manager running again to watch ads. If one comes up that is continually eating CPU cycles, we will get it pulled off.
Brad!
Great job Brad Thanks!
Seems good today. Thanks.
Seems slower today, for some reason. Hopefully, it's not ads. Seems like resources are over-used. Going to reboot in a while, to see if that helps at all.
EDIT: Scrolling has been very slow for the past day or two, only on this site (all pages) Other JM sites work fine, though.
Ads are frozen.
Except for "If you can't stand the heat" one - just saw on the right.
IBM ad is chewing up my CPU AND it won't go away when you click on the "Expand forum" button. It is there and lagging my computer even as I type this.
System fan keeps turning on to HIGH each time an IBM ad comes up. It was cool and quiet for an hour, and now, it's back to major control!
:( Why is it back again?
Yesterday I even saw one Ad on the main Forums page. If you hover your mouse pointer over it, it covers the whole page and you have to click close button at the bottom of the page to close the ad. I guess it was from Intel.
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Originally Posted by Shuja Ali
The intel ad that went over the entire page is gone. I raised the issues of that ad as soon as I saw it (which was about the same time several of you notified me of the issues).
There is still at least one IBM ad that is hanging around. I do know that while it hits the CPU initially, it does let go of it after a second or two. I have reported this internally as well.
As to the "click to close" - that is an issue with how the ad is done in Flash. Once the ad runs through its loop, it will disappear. I'll ask our Forum software guru to take a look at that and see if he can figure anything out. I'm guessing we won't be able to fix that.
Brad!
Thanks again Brad. :)
"If you can't stand the heat" IBM ad is still here. But now is stayed where it was even after I clicked "expand forum to full width" and no text was appearing in reply window when I tried to type.
Sometimes text cursor disappears btw, but it seems to be independant on ad.
Firefox 1.0.7, Windows XP.
One ad just slipped in that crashed Fx. It was in the User CP page, which I just refreshed a previous tab window.
Just crashed again. Only the one though, so that's a little better.
Same thing. Maybe the timing helps? I don't know what else to do about it.
3 hours later, the same thing! Seems that an ad isn't unloading. I come back, and hit refresh, which causes the error.
Just got online now.
Just saw the IBM ad again
IE crashed twice, and everything functions very slowly...
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Originally Posted by dglienna
Ads are semi-randomly placed, so I need to know what ad it was (with a screen shot) and I need the source code from the page. This is the only real way for us to identify which ad is causing you problems. If those are not possible, then at least a description of the ad so I can try to track it down.
Brad!
That will be hard. There is NO ad that comes up, it's just blank, hangs for about 5 seconds, and then crashes Fx. It is saying the index.php page is being loaded, but that's as far as you can get. No source available as it crashes.
Happened right after my last post last night. Got too fed up to log back on. Then first thing today, it crashed, answering a PM.
I'm beginning to wonder if just removing flash would be an option? I assume the ads are also visible for those without flash?
Sometimes when I was surfing this site at home, the CPU fan became very noisy. I was puzzled; I wasn't running a game or virus scan or any intensive stuff. Thanks to this thread, now I know why.
Just happened again. Kind of worried about the temp of my cpu also. Looking for alternatives...
jeezQuote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
and another 30 seconds later, again!
3 more times before i crashed! not good! 10 crashes in 3 days? I'm thining about killing flash...