Core 2 Duo possible bottleneck?

J2468

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Hi, we just got a setup at work that runs 5-6 seperate flash windows inside internet explorer.
We're using a 2.4 core 2 duo, 1gb ram, a sata hd and a gefore 6500 (256mb).
Problem is we get slowdown during a section of animation. When looking at the task manager it appears to only be using one of the two threads.
Anyone got any ideas / solutions?

 

Siba

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Pretty sure if you're running it under IE, it'll count in Task Manager as ONE task. One task, one process...unless IE is written for multithreaded usage of cpu through the flash plugin. I haven't heard of this being done.
 

J2468

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I dont think youve understood the sitauation. It is an application (i think written in c# altho i maybe wrong) that uses the internet explorer component to display the flash file in a window.
When i say i am running multiple instances there are actually multiple processes (flashplayer1.exe, flashplayer2.exe etc) each playing back one swf file.
 

bumfish

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Yes but you'll probably find that all your hosted instances of IE are running as one process - even though you have several processes for your app, they're probably all sharing a single IE process.

Just a guess but it would explain why you're seeing this.
 

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Hi, we just got a setup at work that runs 5-6 seperate flash windows inside internet explorer.
We're using a 2.4 core 2 duo, 1gb ram, a sata hd and a gefore 6500 (256mb).
Problem is we get slowdown during a section of animation. When looking at the task manager it appears to only be using one of the two threads.
Anyone got any ideas / solutions?

What i see is that you have 1GB of RAM, and your peak usage is 1.25GB, therefore you're using the swap file. That could be causing the slowdown. You might want to consider 2GB of RAM total.
 

borandi

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You're probably getting this:
[code:1:7e541f0b1d]
+Core1
| +Internet Explorer 6
| | - Flash Process 1
| | - Flash Process 2
| | - Flash Process 3
| | - Flash Process 4
| | - Flash Process 5

+Core2
| - Something Else[/code:1:7e541f0b1d]
 

J2468

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You're probably getting this:
[code:1:4bb82eaea3]
+Core1
| +Internet Explorer 6
| | - Flash Process 1
| | - Flash Process 2
| | - Flash Process 3
| | - Flash Process 4
| | - Flash Process 5

+Core2
| - Something Else[/code:1:4bb82eaea3]

Yeah thought that was the problem. Does anyone know if the internet explorer 7 object supports multithreading?