[WINDOWS] Performance degradation over time?

bodhi Wrote:I'm just curious to know whether the statement about "3 types of regressions" has any basis? (since I did not have any performance issue, and I always put the HTPC to sleep, hardly ever shut it down). I noticed that XBMC sometime has problem responding when I exit it to desktop, and as you said, restart XBMC it would clear all problem. I think perhaps because I'm running Dharma beta4. Hope the stable version will be better.

I had similar issues with Beta 3. Upgraded to RC2 and has been working like a charm. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to RC2, it`s been rock solid for 2 weeks.
As for basis, as i explained above, on XP and below operating sistems, it had "some" basis due to the ineficient memory managament. But trolls usually forget to update their responses

SpectreX Wrote:I had similar issues with Beta 3. Upgraded to RC2 and has been working like a charm. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to RC2, it`s been rock solid for 2 weeks.
As for basis, as i explained above, on XP and below operating sistems, it had "some" basis due to the ineficient memory managament. But trolls usually forget to update their responses

Thanks for the RC2 recommendation will do that shortly.

a_user Wrote:it is. in fact even without suspend running windows for too long time results in slow performance regression. oh, and to make it even worse, even rebooting from time to time won't stop the regression. it will only slow down the speed of regression, except you don't change/install/uninstall software.

the 3 types of regression have different reasons btw.

Not sure if you're joking, but in case you're not, I'd like to point out that the last time I've reinstalled Windows 7 x64 was when it was released (got a great price by pre-ordering btw ^^), and I've never experienced any kind of performance regression with any application, even though I only reboot once a month or something like that. And it's not like I'm not installing any applications either (although I do uninstall them carefully when I know I won't use them anymore).

So I'd highly recommend that you run an anti-malware / anti-virus because there's obviously something wrong with your system.

Thank you all for your feedback. The goal of my question was not to wake up conflicts between linux and windows

I'm sure that it is not windows issue, simply because, before XBMC, I used Mediaportal without performance degradation.

SpectreX Wrote:Next time this happens, download MPC-HC : http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ and try to playback the same files with it and see how it handles them.

Very good idea. I'll try.

cold_realms Wrote:For the trolls: windows does not have lingering performance issues, not since the days of win95 (even then I had none). I have 6 machines in the house , 5 win7 and 1 server 2008 R2. The only time these machines ever get a reboot is on patch day IF a reboot is required. Zero slowdowns in anything (except the sleep bug that is in XBMC ONLY and all it takes to clear that is restart XBMC).

Even, I like linux, I absolutely agree with you.

bodhi Wrote:I noticed that XBMC sometime has problem responding when I exit it to desktop, and as you said, restart XBMC it would clear all problem. I think perhaps because I'm running Dharma beta4. Hope the stable version will be better.

I'm have the same issue with RC2

SpectreX Wrote:I had similar issues with Beta 3. Upgraded to RC2 and has been working like a charm. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to RC2, it`s been rock solid for 2 weeks.
As for basis, as i explained above, on XP and below operating sistems, it had "some" basis due to the ineficient memory managament. But trolls usually forget to update their responses

My degradation over time is with the currently RC2.

cold_realms Wrote:There are several threads and a bug already in tracker about this issue. There has been some work tracking this down to a timer going crazy after being in sleep for a long period (over a few hours). Just do a search for sleep and you will find them.

For the trolls: windows does not have lingering performance issues, not since the days of win95 (even then I had none). I have 6 machines in the house , 5 win7 and 1 server 2008 R2. The only time these machines ever get a reboot is on patch day IF a reboot is required. Zero slowdowns in anything (except the sleep bug that is in XBMC ONLY and all it takes to clear that is restart XBMC).

I found nothing very interesting with 'sleep', do you have a link ?
Thank you.

Sure

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=76572

and

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=69245

oh and the trac http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10628

SpectreX Wrote:Ignore the Linux trolls, my HTPC is up and running for 4 days

WOW! 4 whole days? impressive.

cold_realms Wrote:Sure

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=76572

and

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=69245

oh and the trac http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10628

Thank you. Yes it seems to be the same issue. I have just installed release 10. Hope this fixes the problem. Wait and see.

FishOil Wrote:WOW! 4 whole days? impressive.

Wow... really? Try and get over yourself. My media server has been running non-stop since i built it 11 months ago. My main PC has been up with only update reboots since oct 2009, my netbook has only been rebooted once since i bought it at the start of last school term. Need more? How about the servers I have built for a few businesses that have been running non-stop for YEARS. Or my wife's hand me down PC that had it's last non-patch reboot when I stuck more ram into it 2 years ago?

The length of time a computer stays operational has had nothing to do with it's OS for YEARS.... please leave the early 90's and join us in 2011 please, actually just leave you add nothing to the conversation.