Bug in 3.7
I've had a few reports of people having problems viewing content in the just released 3.7 - as it happens, the WithStyle guys found a flaw in the html component - and they have a fix. I should have an update out within 2 days (I have to await their build). Once it's out, I'll redo all the builds and upload fresh, so that first time users won't have to grab the update. I'll post on this again when the fix is available.
Update: The patch is available. Grab Both WS updates and restart - things should improve after that
Update: Another tip - if you still see problems, check to see whether your system has hyper-threading support. If so, right click on the BottomFeeder process and set affinity to one CPU - that should address the problem.
Comments
Bug in 3.7
[ Michael Lucas-Smith] October 17, 2004 5:07:10.103
Comment by Michael Lucas-Smith
What's with the hyperthreading?
Bug in 3.7
[ James Robertson] October 17, 2004 10:16:58.890
Comment by James Robertson
Hyperthreading is a system level feature of some chips (x86).
[] October 17, 2004 16:51:31.788
Since the setting don't "stick" between runs, here's a utility that can be used to launch BF with the single CPU affinity: http://www.appliedvisual.com/xcpu.htm
Bug in 3.7
[ Michael Lucas-Smith] October 17, 2004 18:28:00.611
Comment by Michael Lucas-Smith
I know that. But why is it needed for BottomFeeder?
Bug in 3.7
[ John Rubier] October 18, 2004 2:35:17.697
Comment by John Rubier
I don't think BF is using it specifically.
HT just makes a single processor act like 2 allowing programs with SMP optimizations to perform better on the processor (and it actually does work pretty good from what I understand).
Anyway, the problem I was having with some pages rendering and others not was generating exceptions for WSAENOTCONN in privateWriteFrom:startingAt:for: So I google for this and found this: http://tinyurl.com/6hhtd
Seemed similar so I opened task manager and set affinity to a single CPU and the problem cleared up.
Anyway, I think it's not something BF does directly, but something in the VW network libs.