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hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

I recently did a (ctrl alt delete) and brought up Task manager to check what's running and noticed that Magic is using a tone of system resources, to be excact it is sitting at 50,616k Mem usage. I'm running XP. It never did this before, It usually sits around 5,00k any ideas?

bitstopjoe · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Magic Jack a resource Hog?

tsmith · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject:

18,900k and set to HIGH also. XP SP3.

hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

Priority is set to normal. Does it matter what you have set at? Still No answer on how much resource it should take.

tsmith · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:44 pm Post subject:

Just checked it again and it's down to 8,6xxk, so it varies. I don't know what the average is, but it seems 50k is extremely high. You may want to check it again and see how much it's taking up now.

Setting its priority to HIGH gives it a better chance of remaining consistently effective, above all other processes that are constantly trying to grab the CPU's limited resources. You might have known that already. I've experimented with it, and it seems to work better set to HIGH.

hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

ok I have it set to High. Right now it's sitting at 18,576k. Will see what happens in a few. Thanks.

nitemare · MagicJack User Joined: 29 Jan 2010 Posts: 38

How much RAM do you have? What are your PC specs? I bet you have an older PC and minimum ram. If not, your install of XP needs to be fixed up (or reformatted).

hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

2gigs of memory P4 3.4 on a fresh install of XP Pro. Service Pack 3. 800watt power supply.

Just checked again today and we are back up to 49,248K

tsmith · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:11 pm Post subject:

With MJ active and say, offhook with the Echo test, my MJ process increases to around 38,000k+. Once I hang up, it decreases to around 26,000k or so. When I minimize it, it drops to around 6-7000k and hovers around that number. So you're at the 50k mark while your MJ's minimized?

bitstopjoe · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject:

tsmith · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject:

But I'm only minimizing minimally! Mr. Green

bitstopjoe · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject:

hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

Doesn't make a difference if it's minimized or not. Right now it's 47,196 and it is minimized?

KMNugent52 · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:09 am Post subject:

hartterc,
After reading your OP, I decided to check on my own setup.
Just so you know, you're not alone.
I'm running an HP t5700 thin client w/Win XPe SP2, 512 DOM, 512 RAM.
magicjack.exe priority @ high 13.
Task Manager showed magicjack.exe memory use @ 50,500k
After a reboot, it's now @ 22,368.
I'll look back in on it later in the day and post back.
I'm not 100% sure but I think that this behavior started with the most recent
'Luck You'
-Kevin N.

Update:
Holding @ 23,548 after using the phone for the day.

Mimon · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2009 Posts: 18

this small App.may help , I've installed it on my own system ,and the results are very positive all the way around , really improves performance noticeably , description & download for Cleanmem
http://majorgeeks.com/CleanMem_d5993.html

hartterc · magicJack Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2010 Posts: 16

Ok I finally figured out the problem. When magicblock is running it forces magicjack to use a tone of resources. The same with magicsilenceplugin. If I don't run them it stays below 7000k while on the phone or off it stays below 7000k..Very interesting???

redpepper · Dan Should Pay Me Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 501

Your initial assessment of the new magicJack dialer was actually correct. It is indeed a resource hog.

I just ran some more tests with nothing beside the new magicJack dialer functioning and get similar results to Joe, Tom and others in this thread. They match all the previous tests that I ran since the time the new dialer came out.

When the dialer is minimized it sits at around 8,000Kb and when the dialer is maximized the results fluctuate between 18,000Kb and 50,000Kb. When you make a call it goes up a bit further from there.

The largest fluctation appears to be right after you restart the magicJack dialer before you minimize it for the first time. It cleans up some of the heavy duty memory usage after it is minimized once and then re-opened.

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