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disk thrashing and safari beach balling on certain RSS feeds WTH?
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Could someone explain to me why safari beach balls (almost for 20 seconds!) when I go to the RSS feed from say Ars technica - or more commonly - consumerist.com?
I have 400 GB of free space (out of 500GB), 6 GB or RAM with no other programs running! It almost always does this when I first open safari and go to the rss site. activity monitor does not show any page out/ page ins- just data being rported as being read and written. This is on a 2.66 MP, interestingly, on my low end PB G4 with hardly any disk space left, the same page comes up no problem!
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I get the same problem with Autoblog’s feed – no of my other 30 or so feeds have that problem.
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I was playing around with safari - I emptied the cache and that seemed to help. I have no idea why those sites do that....
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Could be flash ads in the RSS feed; Flash for OS X is so poorly written even a little can make a powerful box grind.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
Could be flash ads in the RSS feed; Flash for OS X is so poorly written even a little can make a powerful box grind.
I've been using pith helmet for years, so flash cant be it, good idea though.
Besides, I dont think that anybody today actually surfs the web without an ad-blocker?
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