Serious slowdown

Hey folks.

I just thought I would check in. For the past two days, I have been experiancing some serious slowdown around the site. I don't know if its just me and my end or something else. When using Firefox (which is what I have used for years now), I am getting a lot of "script errors" and a lot of the windows going "not responding" due to me trying to work too fast (even though thats how I usually browse). I want to know if its just me or is this happening with everybody? I am using IE at the moment and its still running very slow compared to usual.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.

Everything seems fine to me.vgm007

OK. I will see what happens. It probably is something to do with me. I will look into sorting it out, if it doesn't fix itself.

EDIT: It already seems a little better. Perhaps it was just something to do with my internet connection, even though other sites seemed to be fine. Hopefully, everything will go back to normal soon enough. :)

Everything seems fine to me.vgm007

I take that back. Something with this site is causing FF to consume tons of memory - more than 200,000K!

I take that back. Something with this site is causing FF to consume tons of memory - more than 200,000K!

vgm007

[QUOTE="vgm007"]Everything seems fine to me.vgm007

I take that back. Something with this site is causing FF to consume tons of memory - more than 200,000K!

I get this ALL the time which is why I can't run iTunes while working. I average 175k to over 600k for some reason. Pages load post by post and I have it set to 50 page max. I made a topic about this long ago but nobody posted in it...lol I had to just coerce myself to get use to it and just not click on so many threads unless absolutely necessary.

Edit: I do realize FF is a huge resource hog but still....

I was fooling around with JUST 1 tab open and each thread I clicked on the number in task manager just kept rising. I went from 35k to 125k in a matter of 5 minutes. I only had 4 tabs open before and 675k was being used which is insane.

Update: OK, after less than an hour of clicking on various threads look how high the number got with only 1 tab open.

I'm having this problem as well. My memory usage now is sitting around 230k and I've had to restart on a couple occasions. I'm not sure if it's just my machine or not, but I got a message yesterday saying my virtual memory was low. I haven't downloaded anything or done anything of the sort. So I'm guessing GS is to blame for that as well. I hope this can get resolved soon.

EDIT: I closed FF just a moment ago and I checked the memory usage and it was still rising. It rose by 10k in a matter of seconds after closing it. Is this normal?

@Zoid: Just did the same thing as it seems that firefox seems to be stuck in the process even though I managed to close it properly when it takes up the memory usagejakeboudville

What's your memory usage at startup?
The_Zoid

That used to happen to me. If I left FF on for a while it would reach around 300k. I stopped using it and switched to Safari, and that stays at around 60k, and works fine even if I leave it running all day. Maybe those of you having problems should try the Safari BETA for Windows. I'm not sure if it's as good as the Mac version, but it might be worth a try.SolidSnake35

It isn't FF though, its when I am browsing GameSpot using FF. When I am on other sites, it seems to be fine.

I know this may sound sadistic but I am glad I am not the only having this problem. This started happening to me way back in May!

I know this may sound sadistic but I am glad I am not the only having this problem. This started happening to me way back in May!

Dracula68

:shock: I couldn't handle that. It just started happening to me two days ago and I am this annoyed with it. I wouldn't really call that sadistic, more happy over the fact that this is a genuine problem somewhere, and not just a problem on your end. Thats whay I am feeling anyway, sadistic/happy, its a thin line :wink:

Update: Everything was running fine, apart from the usage was still very high. However, it suddenly crashed on me and the it was using so much CPU that my computer crashed because of it. This is a serious problem here. At the moment, the usage is sitting at what it should be however, thats only because I restarted my computer and its fresh but I can expect that to rise fast, shortly. I am getting more and more frustrated at this problem as it continues. I really don't know how you managed to put up with it all that time Dracula.

I had no choice really. I despise IE so that wasn't even an option.

I also really don't like IE so I will stick with FF. I really hope something is being looked at to be fixed for this, especially if quite a few people are having the same problems.Caddy06_88

I have been told the Devs are aware of this.

[QUOTE="Caddy06_88"]I also really don't like IE so I will stick with FF. I really hope something is being looked at to be fixed for this, especially if quite a few people are having the same problems.Dracula68

I have been told the Devs are aware of this.

Thats good news then. With any luck, this problem will be behind us soon enough.

[QUOTE="Caddy06_88"]I also really don't like IE so I will stick with FF. I really hope something is being looked at to be fixed for this, especially if quite a few people are having the same problems.Dracula68

I have been told the Devs are aware of this.

Well I am still waiting since May. In all seriousness, I wouldn't expect much done this coming week with E3 and all.

Well I am still waiting since May. In all seriousness, I wouldn't expect much done this coming week with E3 and all.

Dracula68

Oh yes, how can I forget? :P I wouldn't expect a drop in E3 coverage for something like this, as long as GameSpot can cover E3 well enough to make up for it. :)

I also have been seeing this issue. It really horks up Firefox with those script errors, and even my PCs general performance at times (when windows decides FireFox is not responding). At first I thought it was my PC but I've experienced this now on multiple systems.

I sure hope this issue isn't exacerbated when the E3 traffic picks up. It is bad enough watching Firefox spin just loading a simple page and worse when having to respond to a dialogue box before it loads the page.

[QUOTE="Teivan"]The problem is due to a memory leak in mootools.js ver 1.11. We're working on fixing this as rapidly as possible. Most likely we'll be reverting back to version 1.0, but we have to also modify a few things that are using the newer version. :(Thorpe89

Thanks for letting us know. I was beginning to think my computer disliked GameSpot.com.

Yea, thanks for letting us know. It is good to see that the problem has been discovered and hopefully will be fixed as soon as possible so I can get back to high speed browsing :)

I too am getting this horrid slow down. :(

I just hope everything is fine for E3. I hope firefox doesnt explode my pc haha...(not haha :()

Hey everyone, we pushed some changes to fix the memory leaks a little earlier today. It should be better now. We are still going around and fixing things here and there. If you guys have any more problems feel free to PM me or Teivan.CybertronR

Thats good to know. I had to restart because the usage was already way to high so hopefully the usage stays down and the speed is good. I will report back if the things are still slow. Thanks.

I've been have the same problems for the past few days especially today seems to be pretty bad.

Anyways its around 8:00pm & things seem to be working at the moment.

There is a little improvement. I've been clicking on threads for 45 minutes and the FF memory is only at 278k right now so it is rising but at least it is slower.