This may be old news, but it is a problem plaguing me with the current LL viewer (not the RC).
I close Second Life, but an SL.exe is still running in my process list, which I can see in the task manager. It uses up 50% of my CPU, even though Second Life *appears* to be closed. If I had a stream running the sound may or may nor persist, which would tip me off that something is amiss, but otherwise I only see that this is happening because I have a widget that shows how hard my CPU is working. In fact, yesterday my CPU meter was at 100% even though I had nothing visibly running on the computer at the time other than a web browser. I had logged into and out of SL several times since rebooting though.
Of course, when this happens performance on my computer is degraded and the fan runs like mad, which is why I thought I would mention it. Are other people seeing this? Is there a JIRA other than the one about music still playing after closing SL? (I believe I voted for that one.)
Anyone having performance problems might want to have a look and see if instances of SL are still running after you close the client too.
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Nimue Jewell
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01-11-2009 19:08
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Somatika Xiao
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01-11-2009 20:24
Yay. I am not crazy!
I have noticed this problem with the main viewer, and RC viewer on Windows Vista and the new Open Beta of Windows 7, I think this has also occurred in Ubuntu Linux. Kinda weird error, I know it would not be the first of it's kind. _____________________
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Nimue Jewell
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01-11-2009 20:31
I run Vista too. I should have mentioned that before.
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Briana Dawson
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01-11-2009 20:59
Yea this has been a problem since the most recent viewer. It does not plague all 3rd party viewers. Marine's Restrained Life Viewer or the SL Cool Viewer for Linux do not have the problem.
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Distilled1 Rush
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01-11-2009 21:28
I get it sometimes and others not. it was worse for me in the PRevius RCs than the new RC and Regular viewer XP
today no issue. tomorrow is another day. I did notice I see this much more if I am listening to an audio stream when I log out. _____________________
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Nimue Jewell
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01-11-2009 21:45
Yeah, I noticed it with the audio stream too, and perhaps more often, but it was the stealthy CPU use from the non-audio instances that caught me off guard.
BTW, thanks Briana for mentioning the other viewers that don't seem to have this problem.  _____________________
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Lightwave Valkyrie
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01-11-2009 21:58
maybe they are testing spyware
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