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tcn

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Registered: 2011-09-30

Posts: 83

Chromium GPU Process high CPU usage

Hi!

This issue isn't new but unfortunately doesn't go away on its own with upgrades and looking at my Google results I start wondering whether I'm the only one with this problem: the "GPU Process" is almost constantly maxing out one core (or more).

This is on a GeForce GTX 660 (which has an GK106 AFAIK) and always the most recent closed-source drivers from NVIDIA (because nouveau still crashes/freezes in a matter of minutes). Disabling the GPU acceleration screws up chromium's renderer badly (but great to have a switch for that, anyway!) and hence is no option.

Anybody else having this problem? Any advice?

thx
tcn

adirat

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Registered: 2012-11-03

Posts: 27

Re: Chromium GPU Process high CPU usage

This is a known problem, but there is no solution at the moment. Chromium/Chrome sucks atm on linux when it comes to cpu ussage.

Edit http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTYyMDk

Later edit: Have you tried downgrading?

Last edited by adirat (2014-05-25 17:49:28)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Chromium GPU Process high CPU usage

I don't have that issue on intel hardware.
I'm not sure whether this affects nvidia or not, but have you tried enabling "Override software rendering list" in chrome://flags?

@adirat
That phoronix article has nothing to do with issues in current chromium.
va-api has never been supported by it or pepper-flash-player. Besides va-api has nothing to do with basic gpu acceleration.

bennylb0

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 66

Re: Chromium GPU Process high CPU usage

Hi!

This issue isn't new but unfortunately doesn't go away on its own with upgrades and looking at my Google results I start wondering whether I'm the only one with this problem: the "GPU Process" is almost constantly maxing out one core (or more).

This is on a GeForce GTX 660 (which has an GK106 AFAIK) and always the most recent closed-source drivers from NVIDIA (because nouveau still crashes/freezes in a matter of minutes). Disabling the GPU acceleration screws up chromium's renderer badly (but great to have a switch for that, anyway!) and hence is no option.

Anybody else having this problem? Any advice?

thx
tcn

I have an Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti and have the same symptoms as you where flash and html5 video max out the cpu. Performance in both Firefox and Chromium is horrendously poor and games in Steam are so slow they're unplayable.

After trying to find a solution to this over semester break I gave up. I've been taking a similar approach and hoping that with an update the problem may be fixed but nothing has come along yet.

If there is anyone else that's had success with this Nvidia card or something similar please let us know you secret?