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I guess that's why it's called 'Beta'

I'm the type of person that leaves their machine running 24/7. So, the new MSN Messenger 8 Beta has been running for a while now..probably at least 48 hours or more. When I got a system notification area popup telling me my virtual memory was low, I opened Task Manager to look at the status of applications running, and sorted them by memory usage:

Yikes! I hope whatever does that gets worked out before it's released!

p.s. Speaking of Live Messenger 8 - I think I'm about ready to do what Russ Nemhauser did and just rollback to the previous release of MSN Messenger. It's that bad.

Posted: Jan 08 2006, 05:20 PM by jamauss | with 12 comment(s)
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David Findley said:

It looks as if your logged on as administrator so that bad boy is running with full privliges! Yikes!
# January 8, 2006 10:11 PM

David Findley said:

Btw, I've been running mine 24/7 and msnmsgr.exe is only using about 20M. Google talk is using about 10M. So considering how much more bloated uhmmm I mean feature rich Live Messenger is this doesnt seem to bad to me.

I'm thinking this is why the have a Beta program. To uncover these problems.
# January 8, 2006 10:14 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, on that machine (it's a machine I use just for testing out Beta's, CTP's, Release Candidates, etc.) I usually log in as admin, otherwise I get a rash of error messages informing me I don't have privileges to do x, y, and z.

After killing the msnmsgr.exe process and running it again (and just closing it to the notification area - not IM'ing anyone or anything) it's using 42mb or memory. The machine it's running on has 1.5gb of memory so it's not a huge problem, though.
# January 8, 2006 10:38 PM

jayson knight said:

42mb is still a bit heavy IMO, especially since my Trillian is sitting at ~10mb :-). That being said, I also gave the WLM beta a test run over the weekend, and absolutely hated it. Looks like they're targeting teenie-boppers. Maybe they'll offer versions based on age range.
# January 9, 2006 2:21 AM

Bil Simser said:

Not sure why yours is running so high, I run mine all the time and it never caps over 15mb which is fine IMHO.
# January 9, 2006 2:26 AM

David Taylor said:

I hope they are reading your blog....that is the sort of thing a dev might not pick up immediately.
# January 9, 2006 3:59 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I willing to tolerate a lot in order to have Offline Messages, but there is still a limit.

After a bit of usage, the only other change that I've noticed is the ugly and clunky UI.

One person I sent an invite to even said : "the orange thing make me feel sick"
# January 9, 2006 10:43 AM

jayson knight said:

@Andrew: The newest MSN plugin for Trillian 3.x supports offline messages out of the box...just an FYI.
# January 9, 2006 5:49 PM

Bill said:

Jason - is the version you're using "Windows Live Messenger"? If not, are you interested in it?
# January 14, 2006 7:30 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Yeah, it's the "Windows Live Messenger".
# January 14, 2006 7:46 PM

systemX said:

yo Jason, im glad i found someone with the same problem :), mine showed 300,000 K mem usage :(, i emailed the wlm people about it, hope they fix it.
# January 31, 2006 3:01 PM

Roxy said:

I dont use Live Messenger...thanks for alerting me I will stick to yahoo.

# January 18, 2008 7:46 PM
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