High resource utilization from RSS readers
I’ve been testing several different news readers over the last few days, and watching resource utilization at the same time. A few days ago, Outlook 2007 slowed to a crawl, only to discover one of the news readers I was testing had jumped up to high utilization, became a memory hog, and was dragging my system. As soon as I shut it down, normal operation resumed.
So, my watch resumes. I’m testing three at the moment. I’ll report later which three, which one used the most resources and slowed my system down.
I’ve tried Google Reader, and it’s just too slow. And yes, I’ve tried Outlook RSS feeds but don’t like the way that works either. And yes, I’ve tried News Gator (FeedDemon) since it’s now free but it’s basically tied to the web and only updates when the web says to update (can’t change the update frequency).
So, more later…but needless to say, two of the three have jumped way up in utilization, and one remains extremely low utilization (and extremely fast). I trashed testing two others because it won’t restart correctly after shutdown.