Shiretoko misbehavior (using 100% CPU at times)

jamtat · 2009-08-11 23:02:18

I recently did a pacman -Syu and got the latest firefox (3.5.2) along with it. The browser has become marginally usable with this update: it regularly soaks up 100% of CPU cycles. This happpans as I am doing something within the browser, e.g., typing this message, scrolling down a page, switching between tabs, etc. The system is so overloaded when doing those things that it seems as though the browser has frozen. I.e., I'll type several words in this message and nothing shows up for, say, 3 - 5 seconds. Looking at the CPU meter when this happens, I see it spiking to 100%. Now, I admit that I tend to have a lot of tabs open at any given time (as many as 15), and that I have not yet tried using Shiretoko with less than, say 10 tabs open. But the previous browser (Gran Paradiso) behaved fine under these conditions: it would occasionally crash on me, but I didn't have the CPU-usage-spike problem. I'm going to have to switch to Epiphany until some update for Firefox comes out the way things have gone thus far with Shiretoko.

So, is anyone else seeing problems like this with Shiretoko? Any advice on remedying this? Maybe specify a nice value or something like that? That would be just a band-aid solution, really. Input will be apreciated.

Thanks,
James

murffatksig · 2009-08-12 00:47:04

How many extensions do you have. Some extensions may not play nice with newer versions of the browser. You could try disabling all the extensions, then slowly add them back one at a time and see if one particular add-on causes the issue.

jamtat · 2009-08-12 03:56:18

Tried disabling all extensions (I have 5) but it didn't make any difference. Still longish periods of hanging accompanied by CPU spike when I do things within the browser as mentioned above. Any other suggestions? Sounds like not many others are experiencing the Siretoko issues I'm seeing.

James

AdrenalineJunky · 2009-08-12 04:16:46

i have the same problem. not sure what it is.

not really a huge deal for me as i mainly use opera.

thisllub · 2009-08-12 04:20:30

Opera is currently unusable with massive memory overruns locking up the machine.

Try disabling java.

R00KIE · 2009-08-13 20:59:55

And I would look into the flash plugin too, most pages have some sort of flash in them these days and for linux that is still a big nono that brings massive cpu usage.

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#1 2009-08-11 23:02:18

Shiretoko misbehavior (using 100% CPU at times)

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