marklio - SharpReader update!

Monday, November 10, 2003

If you don't know what SharpReader is, you probably read blogs by visiting numerous web pages, clicking through entries looking for new content. There is a better way!

SharpReader is an RSS aggregator. “What is RSS?” you ask? Chris Sells has a nice explanation. I've been using SharpReader since I set up my blog (having done that relatively late in the game) and it's pretty nice. The new features in v0.9.3.1 are excellent! My favorites are:

Support for viewing comments (not supported by all blogs)
Toast windows (the little MSN messenger-like windows that pop up letting you know there's new content)

Some things you should know about it before you try it:

It takes up alot of memory UNLESS you minimize it when not using it, that way it will release it's working set, yielding a pretty small footprint.
Closing it will minimize it to the tray, which will NOT trigger its memory release.

If you have trouble setting up SharpReader, or don't know what to do with it. Leave a comment.

posted on Monday, November 10, 2003 5:40:13 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:13:27 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Have you complained to the author of SharpReader about said memory footprint problem?

Pete

Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:53:21 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Well, the memory footprint size is well known, and has been somewhat accepted. It seems large to me. Of course most of that has to do with how Windows manages the working set of programs. Since memory isn't really released until necessary, most of the numbers in the task manager don't reflect what's currently in use. This is because it's paged out in case it's needed again. Releasing it requires it to be at least soft faulted back first. The real problem I see is that using the close button to minimize to the tray doesn't have the same effect on reported memory as using minimize. (And no, I haven't complained about this formally) mostly because I didn't realize what minimize did.

marklio

Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:13:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Yah, I just wanted to post this so you get a message..muahahhahahaa

seth