PowerBuilder and Tux 8 - Hight CPU

Running PowerBuilder 6.05 application with Tux 8.0 w/s on Citrix
Cause the Citrix to have CPU peaks /spikes
Any Idea what might be the issue?

Hmmm... not sure what the problem could be.
Spotify runs fine on my mac.
Try a clean reinstall of Spotify to see if this fixes the problem:
Advanced method:
https://support.spotify.com/learn-more/faq/#!/article/reinstallation-of-spotify
Easy method:
Download this free app cleaner. It's super easy. Download button is on the right side
http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
When you open up the app, click the search icon and search for Spotify and it will automatically find and delete all files on your computer related to Spotify.
I use it all the time and it's a really great tool. If you ever decide to uninstall an app, the best way is to use this tool.
After that, download and reinstall Spotify.

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Message was edited by: sinious

The jump to FP11 was pretty significant with Stage3D. Now Flash Player has a lower level access to your computers GPU to offload playing video and 3d rendering to the GPU. However if your systems GPU isn't up to the task you really won't see that performance gain.
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Please see the test results attached. Any input greatly appreciated!
Original stackoverflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20994323/google-earth-plugin-with-labview-high-cpu-usage-when-add...
Attachments:
Performance Log 020114_095115.png ‏82 KB

Hello,
I have had a look at your graphs and understood what you are trying to do. To me it seems that as the image gets more complex it gets harde to render which wold likely cause increase in CPU usage resulting in the freeze. I would suggest you try running the program on anoher computer to check on the RAM front of things. If this is a limitation of the GE Plugin then unfortunately I can not do much to help, but if you think this is a problem coming from your LabVIEW code then you can post your code here and I can take a look.

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I bought a 1 TB RAID0 drive at the Apple Store. I copied all my photo shoot directories ove rthere. I emptied Aperture (deleted all projects, restarted). I then started re-importing the images from the new drive (I chose the way that leaves the originals where they are).
So far it has been chugging along all night creating thumbnails. The CPU is 200% used (of which 190% is Aperture). Aperture is completely unresponsive. In fact - Aperture is so unresponsive I am sure it has hung up. Yes, it has - no activity but 200% CPU. Ok, I force quit and now I need to repeat the process again?
This does not seem like good software - certainly not well behaved. I mean, how difficult can it be to import 10,000 images - that is what this software is for. Right? So make the app “nice” 10, already, so I can do other things meanwhile. Or give me a progress bar, with an ETA.
I am willing to learn - not being difficult. I have Googled others’ issues. I have followed instructions. I have tried support (no help there). I ask here.
But should it really take month to import my images? I am very close to throwing this crapware out and getting Lightroom instead.
Ideas welcome. Or an Apple phone number, which Appleseems to be very adept at hiding at all costs. I'll pay for the **** service!!!!!
Michael

Welcome to the forum.
The phone number will be on the AppleCare document that came in your Aperture box, along with an AppleCare ID for your copy of Aperture.
Also, typing 'applecare telephone number' into Google will give you http://www.apple.com/support/contact/phone_contacts.html as the very first result...
I've never imported more than a thousand images at once but have not seen the kind of problems you are describing. What happens if you try importing smaller chunks at a time?
Progress bar - open up the Activity window (Window>Show Activity) to view the progress of all background tasks such as importing & exporting, generation of thumbnails and Previews. You'll also see a 'working' indicator at the bottom of the Viewer or Browser panes, clicking on this will normally bring up the Activity window. Finally, the Project you are importing into will show a pie chart progress indicator instead of it's usual 'filing box' icon.
Ian
P.S. '+(taking 200% CPU - who writes this malware?)+' - if you're an IT pro then you're already aware that apps that are working flat-out and are multi-core aware are going to grab as much of the CPU(s) as possible. 200% and not doing anything is a problem - 200% in itself simply means the app is making full use of the resources available, and RAW decoding is an extremely CPU-intensive task.

[SOLVED]Conky and the phantom CPU

So I am running Conky with Fluxbox on a laptop with a duel core CPU. Playing around with Conkys different output and variables trying to get a set up I liked. I notice I was able to monitor three CPUs when there should only be two. I can't seem to find any documentation on why this would be. All output different numbers is it possible one is the sum of each core added together? I also noted that if I add ${cpu cpu3} to the code below it does not show a fourth or more CPUs.
${color}CPU: ${cpu cpu0}%
${color}CPU: ${cpu cpu1}%
${color}CPU: ${cpu cpu2}%
If someone could shed some light on this for me and maybe let me know which ones I should be using it would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by Sebrithil (2012-10-22 02:41:18)

The conky man page has the information you need, and so does the online conky documentation: http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
man conky
cpu (cpuN)
CPU usage in percents. For SMP machines, the CPU number can be provided as an argument. ${cpu cpu0} is the total usage, and ${cpu cpuX} (X >= 1) are individual CPUs.
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-10-22 02:30:29)

Powerbuilder and Java

On a wider note I'm very surprised that Java hasn't catered for extending base classes and still be able to keep the inheritance chain. If I compare this with Powerbuilder for a second, their Foundation Classes all come with an empty extension object between all their pre-defined classes. This would be the same in Java as having:
Object
|
Object extension (empty)
|
Component (changed to have Object extension as ancestor)
|
Component extension (empty)
|
TextComponent (changed to have Component extension as ancestor)
|
etc, etc.
The reason I bring up the comparison is I was wondering if any Third Party Vendors have done a similar thing with Java, i.e. not just created a series of extension objects but INSERTED objects between the higher classes?
Is there such a thing to the best of anyone's knowledge or does everyone go down a route similar to the service one I've discussed above?

Well, for one thing, this wreak havoc on code code reusability. For example, if I create a program similar to Eclipse and allow plug in components, if you have altered the heirarchy of classes, how does that impact my code? Wht if we have both done this? Who wins?
I do agree that there is a real issue here. It's definitely a huge pain to have to extend every subclass of Component to add a little functionality. What's worse is that you can't even create a subinterface of a concrete class meaning that you can't create a MyComponent and have all your Components implement it.
I think Component should have been an interface. Other people disagree and I respect that but I think it really makes things difficult. Then all the current concrete classes would just implement these classes. Then each sub-class would implement a subinterface and use the decorator patter to get the effect you are after.
For example:
Component <--- BasicComponent
   ^               ^       ^
   |               |       |
   |<--Label<--BasicLabel |
   |                       |
Button <--------------BasicButtonNow you could create your own classes like so (or keep going with decorators):
MyButton extends BasicButton
    MyButton()
       super(new BasicComponent());
MyLabel extends BasicLabel
    MyLabel()
       super(new BasicComponent());
}Then down the road you want to implement a simple change in all Component behavior:
class MyComponent extends BasicComponent
   // blah blah blah
MyButton extends BasicButton
    MyButton()
       super(new MyComponent());
MyLabel extends BasicLabel
    MyLabel()
       super(new MyComponent());
}

Multi-select LOV's hang form and use 100% CPU power

Hello,
We are using Designer 6i (6.5.52.1.0) and Headstart 6.5
In one of our forms we are using 6 Multi-select LOV's.
When we click the Cancel or Ok button (included through QMS_MSEL_LOV_BUTTONS), or hit Enter query in one of the ML_... blocks the form hangs and starts using all the CPU-power. I've tested this locally (c/s) and through the web (iAS), same result...
I already rebuilt the LOV's but the problem isn't solved.
We've got other forms with one or two multi-select LOV's, and these work fine.
Has anyone experienced this behaviour before, and what is the cure?
Thanks in advance!
Wouter

Wouter,
If you are running against Solaris, you could be running into the following:
Headstart applications that run via webforms on a Sun Solaris application server, suffer again from bug 1985903. This bug was spotted and solved a time ago and seemed to be solved at next
releases of Forms 6i. Now, on Solaris the bug is introduced again.
Description
===========
1. When using a multi-select LOV (which is displayed in a modal dialog
window), you select the records you want, press OK, and the application exits.
2. When using a shuttle control to move records from left to right or vice
versa, you select the records you want, press '>' to move them, and the
application exits.
This occurs in Forms 6.0.8.13.0 and 6.0.8.14.1. It did NOT occur in prior
releases. This is some kind of forms bug.
Workaround
==========
For some reason the call to procedure renumber in qms$msel.process_records
causes the application to exit. If you copy the code from renumber to all the
places from which it is called, it works fine.
- open qmslib65.pll in Form Builder
- open package body qms$msel
- find procedure process_records and define a local variable l_recno of type
number.
- find local procedure renumber and copy the body of this procedure
(everything
after 'begin' and before 'exception').
- replace each call to 'renumber;' with the copied code.
A new version of qms$msel package body is available on iXchange for download.
See Headstart Oracle Designer 6i, Bugs and Fixes.
Hope this helps,
Marc Vahsen
Headstart Team
Oracle NL

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