System slows down after running “check speed” in Beta 3
By btester92 | October 16th, 2007 | 3:59 pm
The system slows down considerably after “checking the speed” found in Help > Check Speed. All of memory is used up and my computer is slow to open any kind of window and even slower to close it, often rolling the window down slowly, an indication of low memory. By rolling the window down, I mean than closing a window makes the title bar and menus disappear and then slowly the rest of the window from top to bottom, appearing as if somebody is wiping the window off of the desktop. I’m not sure why this happens but during the test I noticed using a widget that the RAM was up to 99%. Maybe the speed check needs to be run at system start-up, like when you have to run chkdsk on a restart.
Oct 17, 2007
We did disk cache cleanup during speed check. This slows down system just after checking.
In Beta 4 we changed speed checking implementation, so this is not an issue more.