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

Monday, January 9, 2006

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.

12 Comments

It looks as if your logged on as administrator so that bad boy is running with full privliges! Yikes!

David Findley - Monday, January 9, 2006 3:11:00 AM

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.

David Findley - Monday, January 9, 2006 3:14:00 AM

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.

Jason Mauss - Monday, January 9, 2006 3:38:00 AM

Not sure why yours is running so high, I run mine all the time and it never caps over 15mb which is fine IMHO.

Bil Simser - Monday, January 9, 2006 7:26:00 AM

I hope they are reading your blog....that is the sort of thing a dev might not pick up immediately.

David Taylor - Monday, January 9, 2006 8:59:00 AM

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"

AndrewSeven - Monday, January 9, 2006 3:43:00 PM

@Andrew: The newest MSN plugin for Trillian 3.x supports offline messages out of the box...just an FYI.

jayson knight - Monday, January 9, 2006 10:49:00 PM

Jason - is the version you're using "Windows Live Messenger"? If not, are you interested in it?

Bill - Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:30:00 AM

Yeah, it's the "Windows Live Messenger".

Jason Mauss - Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:46:00 AM

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.

systemX - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:01:00 PM

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

Roxy - Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:46:09 AM

There are a lot of chat tools

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