fireworks/dweaver memory/cpu problem with odd site

#1

We have some users who have created a small web site with very complex
fireworks files. There are only a dozen or so pages, but the site overall has
about 7000 files. When they upload the site dreamweaver hits the cpu very hard
and takes 30 - 40 minutes to upload the files. Using Dreamweaver MX the
program often runs out of memory (it has 1GB of physical memor). Using
Dreamweaver MX 2004 it still pegs the cpu for 1/2 hour, but it eventually
finishes without serious memory complaint (even though that machine only has
512 MB memor). It would appear that Dreamweaver and or fireworks does some
complex dependency checking and that especially under Dweaver MX it may exhaust
any reasonable amount of memory when using fireworks files as I have
described.

Is the behavior I have described expected? Obviously web pages should not be
produced this way, and the users will eventually have to change them, but I
need some sort of informed opinion from experienced dreamweaver people to bring
to them if I am to tell them that what they are trying to do is not going to
work well with dreamweaver.

If what I have described is not expected behaviour I would verfy much
appreciate any suggestions for improving things.

Thanks for any help,

Jude Poole
Biology Computing Services
UCSD
jpoole (AT) ucsd (DOT) edu

#2

What is a URI to the site?

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"ucsdbio" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

We have some users who have created a small web site with very complex
fireworks files. There are only a dozen or so pages, but the site overall
has
about 7000 files. When they upload the site dreamweaver hits the cpu very
hard
and takes 30 - 40 minutes to upload the files. Using Dreamweaver MX the
program often runs out of memory (it has 1GB of physical memor). Using
Dreamweaver MX 2004 it still pegs the cpu for 1/2 hour, but it eventually
finishes without serious memory complaint (even though that machine only
has
512 MB memor). It would appear that Dreamweaver and or fireworks does
some
complex dependency checking and that especially under Dweaver MX it may
exhaust
any reasonable amount of memory when using fireworks files as I have
described.

Is the behavior I have described expected? Obviously web pages should not
be
produced this way, and the users will eventually have to change them, but
I
need some sort of informed opinion from experienced dreamweaver people to
bring
to them if I am to tell them that what they are trying to do is not going
to
work well with dreamweaver.

If what I have described is not expected behaviour I would verfy much
appreciate any suggestions for improving things.

Thanks for any help,

Jude Poole
Biology Computing Services
UCSD
jpoole (AT) ucsd (DOT) edu

#3

There is a copy of the site temporarily at http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/~jude/pat_test/

Thanks,

Jude

#4

Any particular page I should look at?

Right off the bat, I like the look of the home page, but I'm definitely not
happy with the code or the layout approach....

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"ucsdbio" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

There is a copy of the site temporarily at
http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/~jude/pat_test/

Thanks,

Jude

#5

.oO(Murray *TMM*)

Quote:

Any particular page I should look at?

Right off the bat, I like the look of the home page, but I'm definitely not
happy with the code or the layout approach....

And I'm wondering what a search engine or disabled users will see from
it ...

<http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.cgi?url=http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/~jude/pat_test/>

Micha

#6

I really just want to understand what Dreamweaver is doing when it uploads
this site. I can ftp the files one minute with minimal cpu usage. Uploading
the site with dreamweaver takes 30 minutes with the cpu pegged (that's under MX
2004, under MX it eats all the memory and dies).

Thanks,

Jude