How can there be five instances?!

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:17 am

Okay, not sure if this would be in the Tech Talk section or in the Emulators section; this issue covers both topics in a way. Okay, so, I have the legal version of PJ64 1.7.0.56 (which is the most recent on AFAIK) and it runs great. Total RAM being used: 237464K (roughly 232MB RAM). This is ridiculous, if you look at the task manager. It's not making too much impact on speed, but I do find it a bit worrisome. Here the picture of the processes: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh13 ... yPJ64s.jpg
Is there a virus or what? I know the file to be legit saying as I've never seen this until today. No matter what I do, the processes cannot be terminated; regardless of how many times I click "end process" or "end process tree". Any suggestions?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:30 am

First reboot. Then load up the app. If that happens again when it is reloaded, then it's probably intentional (probably because of multithreading or it's attempting to run a side process for whatever the case may be).

The worst case is that something's preventing it from closing all its child processes properly (usually due to crashing).

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:53 am

Hmm...yeah, I should've thought of rebooting a long time ago. I'll try that and see what happens. I did see a couple of error message pop up, but nothing that interfered the gameplay.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:17 am

didn't think of rebooting

congratulations

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:23 am

Uh..."thanks" but still, I thought it was odd.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:49 am

i should have followed up with "you're a moron"

while odd, your problem was two minutes from being solved the whole time.

less odd actually, since firefox will do it to me. except it won't actually open. but i rebooted, and it worked after that, and i didn't have to waste anyone's time here.

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:38 am

232 MB for a n64 emulator sounds about right honestly if it caches everything.

Next you'll find weird that DS emus take that amount of space too...