Chromium 100% CPU

Stythys · 2009-11-29 04:07:58

So I just installed chromium and noticed that whenever it does anything sound-related (youtube, pandora, etc.) there's a process called "exe" that eats up all my cpu. any ideas?

Archiee · 2009-12-10 00:01:57

Try Iron
It's Chromium but without Googlespyware.

For me it works like a charm..

eazy · 2009-12-11 12:12:19

Stythys wrote:

So I just installed chromium and noticed that whenever it does anything sound-related (youtube, pandora, etc.) there's a process called "exe" that eats up all my cpu. any ideas?

I've seen this myself too, and apart from the malware-looking name, "exe" is actually a symbolic link in the /proc/pid/ directory pointing to the executable file of the process. I think Chromium uses this trick to have a separate process per tab.

$ find /proc -name exe

/proc/5617/exe
/proc/5630/task/5630/exe
/proc/5630/exe
/proc/5790/task/5790/exe
/proc/5790/exe

[etc.]

This is my theory though, if someone knows the details feel free to correct me.

You'll usually see one of them using full CPU when a Flash object is displayed on the page, so you'll have to blame Adobe, as usual

combuster · 2009-12-11 12:45:07

Yep, it's flash that is causing this. And it doesn't matter if you are on youtube with chromium or firefox, cpu usage is the same...

Pierre · 2009-12-11 13:17:42

The nice thing is that flash is run by its own process which cannot take down the browser. Try killall exe while watching youtube for example.

PS: I'd which flash would just die. ;-)

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Chromium 100% CPU

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