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acrylic

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Registered: 2017-08-10

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High CPU on web-based apps

I run on a fairly beefy laptop (i7 7600u, 16gb mem) with KDE 5 Plasma, I also run a Windows VM with 4gb dedicated RAM and 2 vCPU's 24/7. Also I use Chromium, and usually have about 10-20 tabs open at any given time - and my CPU is fine.

However, I've now tried GPMDP and Whatsapp-desktop and they both cause huge CPU spikes and increase my temps by about 40%. It doesn't make sense.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Both of these packages just seem to be containers for web-apps, I don't know what would cause them to spike to severely.

Running kernel 4.12.6-1-ARCH.

Last edited by acrylic (2017-08-14 08:53:42)

ugjka

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2014-04-01

Posts: 1,962

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Re: High CPU on web-based apps

Because they are Electron based. Electron is a buggy piece of shit that been forced down our throats by amatuer developers who can't make real desktop apps.
Just google "Why Electron uses up my cpu while idle" *sigh*