[Klug-general] Sony DVR & CPU Load on huffingtonpost.co.uk

[Paul Lawrence]

Thanks Karl,

I don't leave the laptop running (a venerable, pre-owned IBM X41 running Ubuntu 12.04) for days and days. 

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. 
VBR 
Paul


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 From: Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at gmail.com>
To: Paul Lawrence <paul.z.lawrence at btinternet.com>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 10:23
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Sony DVR & CPU Load on huffingtonpost.co.uk
 


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.

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.

Karl



On 23 July 2013 10:12, Paul Lawrence <paul.z.lawrence at btinternet.com> wrote:

Notes in passing ....
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>1. This was me yesterday morning .... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/sony_digital_video_recorders_lose_freeview/
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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 huffingtonpost.co.uk was taking min 60% for doing not much at all. I know this is a media-rich site, but this seems a bit excessive.
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>VBR 
>Paul
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