<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Thanks Karl,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I don't leave the laptop running (a venerable, pre-owned IBM X41 running Ubuntu 12.04) for days and days. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Problem seems to be just the huffington home page. Pick another page and the load drops significantly. The pages don't make the browser unstable. Yup, Tools > Task Manager shows Shockwave Flash running at about 80% ... to do with media (and there is a lot) and frequent updates and/or some kind of page error. Not really a prob. Just a passing observation for filing away. </span></div><div></div><div>VBR </div><div>Paul<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Karl Buckland <buckland.karl@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Lawrence <paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent@mailman.lug.org.uk>
<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 10:23<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Klug-general] Sony DVR & CPU Load on huffingtonpost.co.uk<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv578614610"><div dir="ltr">Chrome has it's own task manager (under Settings > Tools), so I assume that Chromium has the same? That may shed more light on the matter.<div><br></div><div>Sometimes it's a plug-in, like Flash, or an extension. Alternatively, I still see any browser with lots of tabs generally behaving strangely after being left open for a few days - whether it's memory, CPU or whatever. Sometimes Javascript is to blame. Some websites have a lot of javascript and media.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Karl</div></div><div class="yiv578614610gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv578614610gmail_quote">On 23 July 2013 10:12, Paul Lawrence <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com">paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv578614610gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div>Notes in passing ....</div><div><br></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 18.88888931274414px; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1. This was me yesterday morning .... <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/sony_digital_video_recorders_lose_freeview/" style="font-size:14pt;">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/sony_digital_video_recorders_lose_freeview/</a></div>
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2. Noticed that my CPU load was hovering around 100% with me
doing nothing. top showed Chromium was the greedy process. Closing each tab at a time showed <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://huffingtonpost.co.uk/">huffingtonpost.co.uk</a> was taking min 60% for doing not much at all. I know this is a media-rich site, but this seems a bit excessive.</div>
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