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#96002 29/08/04 01:46 AM
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After running mirc continuously for about a week, the entire WIndows XP system lags to hell. Basically, user interface of all program will now use 100% cpu. Mirc's own options dialog box will take 1 minute to open, task manager show 100% kernal cpu usage during that time.

Same thing with other programs, flashfxp's option dialog takes minutes to open 100% cpu used by flashfxp.

After shutting down MIRC, problem dissapears.

This problem appeared around early this year, So I'm guessing around Mirc 6.0 and after. Earlier version doesn't have this bug.

I've used Windows XP SP1 and SP2, P3 1GHZ. 1gig of ram.

And if it helps, 3 hd, 1 dvd-r. ati 8500 128meg.

Someone with a p4 2.4gig is also effected.

#96003 29/08/04 01:55 AM
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well .. i've been using mirc 6.16 since its release .. on a WinXP machine .. with 800Mhz .. and never faced this prob ..

are you sure .. that this behaviour is not due to any SCRIPT loaded in the mirc .. ?

#96004 29/08/04 02:39 AM
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Are you using XP GUI themes? They have been known to be troublesome with mIRC in the past.

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I have had mIRC open for 2 weeks now on XP Home SP2 with it being constantly used, all buffer's filled, many scripts loaded, etc and I have no problems at all.

Do you use scripts that read and/or write to text files a lot? If so, and you're a scripter, I'd strongly recommend you look into /help File Handling. Because everytime you use /write or $read mIRC loads that file into memory, and if you do this thousands of times a day, it can cause massive lag.

Also if you've got any scripts that use DLLs which are not unloaded then that will cause issues as well.


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#96006 29/08/04 08:39 AM
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Nope, no windows theme. I've turned almost everything off because of the untolarable lag that just kept building day by day...

I do have a few scripts, but nothing complicated. And I'm on the exact setup as before. It never lagged last year... I had a 3 week uptime back then, and it's perfectly fine.

I'm falling back to version 6.12 currently. I'll keep you updated after a week if it stoped lagging or not...

#96007 01/09/04 05:58 AM
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WinXP Professional 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build #2600)
1 CPU - Intel Pentium III, 448 MHz, L1: 16KB L2: 512KB
RAM: 256MB
And I just hit 2w 7h 10m uptime with 2 mircs running always buffers full one has 100+ scripts loaded Operd on one so Its always getting snotices and what not. At most I get a little hang with the options but thats like 5 seconds and I expect that on my pos

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Since downgrading to 6.03 the lag problem disapeared.

I think tons of 1 time timer might be the place that leaks. (something around 10,000 of them a day)

#96009 14/09/04 06:57 AM
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oh yes i remember, someone suggested that logging might be a cause of the lag as well.


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