RE: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem

  • From: "bjones" <shawnee@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:06:39 -0500

I was sent a list of instructions on how to best set up Jaws with XP and
when I confirmed that my system was set up accordingly and things were still
not working well I was sent the same instructions again.
Barbara

  -----Original Message-----
  From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of RAWest
  Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:20 PM
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem


  Just submitted the issue with FS.

  Now lets wait and see.


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: bjones
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:35 PM
    Subject: RE: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem


    Brian
    Jaws 8 is sluggish in all things on my computer. It's horrible in Word,
e-mail and just moving about. I'm hoping a fix comes out soon because
otherwise I'm going back to an older version that worked better. I've never
done an upgrade when it first comes out and now I know why.
    Just opening my e-mail program there is a delay.  FS says they know
about the delay when opening a message and having to wait for it to read. In
word using the control and arrow keys used to be a breeze now it works like
I'm going over punctuation or a date with slashes in it.
    With this new bong thing going on Jaws locks up and if I hit a keystroke
too fast my system locks up.  It appears on my system that Jaws wants the
focus more than ever and if I do something a split second when Jaws is
trying for the focus I'm locked up.
     It is just awful and FS has not been able to help me with any of it.
    Barbara

      -----Original Message-----
      From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Brian Hansen
      Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:43 PM
      To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subject: Re: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem


      It seems that the more it grows, the less I'm able to have other
projects open simultaneously without the system becoming more and more
sluggish.  I rebooted a couple of hours ago, and I'm already up to almost
25MB for JFW.  I've heard of growing, but this is a bit ridiculous.

      Blessings,

      Brian

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: RAWest
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:24 PM
        Subject: Re: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem


        I also tried using the jaws memory unload feature.

        After restarting jaws 8 and hit the refresh key about a dozen time
memory usage went up about 3000k.

        I don't no what all this means unless when jaws talks it keeps
taking more memory to do it's job.


          ----- Original Message -----
          From: Brian Hansen
          To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:31 PM
          Subject: JFW 8 & a Possible Memory Leak Problem


          I forwarded my problems and findings to FS, and they can't seem to
reproduce this.  So I'm hoping that one or more of you might be having some
of the same symptoms as well.

          I'm using the latest version of JFW 8, and when I keep repeating
the same tasks over and over again, JFW seems to keep growing in memory.

          For Example:
          If I start my system from a cold start and have JFW load
automatically where I'm at nothing but the desktop, and then hit
CTRL-ALT-DELETE and look at my list of processes, JFW is using 15472K of
memory.  How ever, if I exit out of the Task Manager and then go right back
in without doing anything else, JFW is now using 15920K of memory.  If I
repeat this a third time without doing anything else, JFW is now using
16192K of memory.  After a fourth time, JFW 8 was reported to be using
16456K of memory.  Again, this is without running any other apps, or doing
anything else with JFW.  During a day of normal use, I've found JFW to be
taking up to as much as 60MB. of memory.

          I'm also finding that if JFW is set to load on startup, then it
usually wants to use a minimum of 2% of my processor resources, but if I
launch JFW via my hot key, then it usually reports back 0% resources in use.

          What got me looking into all of this, is that my system tends to
want to become a bit more sluggish as the day goes on, and I usually have to
reboot the system to correct this problem.  I didn't find JFW 7.1 put as
much of a strain on my system as JFW 8 seems to do, and with a 3.4GHz.
Pentium D Dual Core processor, and 2GB. of memory, I wouldn't expect a lot
of sluggishness.  I know that if I shut down JFW, then the system is a lot
more responsive.

          Blessings,

          Brian


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