turning off hardware acceleration seems counterproductive to reducing CPU load. That is supposed to allow the GPU to offset load from the CPU. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:38 AM, JD Austin wrote: > Rather than forcibly kill browser processes for chrome you can just > install the 'One Tab' plugin (https://www.one-tab.com/); the other issue > with chrome I've had is that I have to turn off hardware acceleration or > chrome is a royal CPU hog. The two together solved my Chrome issues. > > -- > [image: eSig Logo] > J.D AUSTIN > TWIN GECKOS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LLC > Open Technology Specialist > P.O. Box 2487 Apache Junction, Az 85117 > Web: www.twingeckos.com > Work: 480-269-4335 x10004 > Fax: 480-907-1433 > Cell: 480-288-8195 > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:57 AM, wrote: > >> I did switch to Chrome too... >> Until Chrome also got all screwed up... :( >> So now I use Firefox again because I can: >> kill $(ps -ef|grep ' true tab$'|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}') >> and that kills all browser scripts and crashes all the browser tabs, but >> the tabs survive and can be individually restored. >> Can't do that with Chrome... >> ET >> >> >> techlists@phpcoderusa.com writes: >> >>> Hi Joe, >>> I used to have the issue with JavaScript taking over my browser. Looks >>> like that is the same issue you are having. I used to use FireFox. Had >>> the problem all the time. I changed to chrome. Solved the problem. >>> Keith >>> >>> On 2018-05-22 16:22, joe@actionline.com wrote: >>> >>>> Recently, I have begun to have recurring issues >>>> with my Linux Mint 18.1 system seeming to get "stuck" >>>> and I can't figure out why. I leave my system running >>>> 24/7 and have rarely had a reason or need to shut down. >>>> It has now been running (mostly fine) for 10 days. >>>> The recent problems have happened with both the chrome >>>> browser and the firefox browser (open at separate times). >>>> Various symptoms include the screen seeming to "freeze" >>>> sometimes with the cursor pointer disappearing, sometimes >>>> it changes to an "I" instead of an arrow pointer and is >>>> either unmovable on the screen or sometimes it can be >>>> moved, but at a drunken snail's pace. >>>> Sometimes the screen goes blank and if I walk away and >>>> come back after several minutes, the screen is restored >>>> and the cursor can be moved again. >>>> I have uploaded a screen shot and two text files as >>>> examples, including top.txt ... ps-ef.txt ... and a couple >>>> of screen shots. Can someone tell me what processes ps-ef >>>> show that should be or could be killed? >>>> Why does top-txt show two instances of chrome running ?? >>>> Why does top whoc 4 users when 'who' shows only 3? >>>> And why are there 3 users when I am the only user? >>>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/freeze.jpg >>>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/top-txt >>>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/ps-ef.txt >>>> t420: who >>>> joe tty8 2018-02-28 14:39 (:0) >>>> joe pts/2 2018-05-22 15:43 (:0) >>>> joe pts/5 2018-02-28 14:40 (:0) >>>> top - 15:47:20 up 170 days, 5:29, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 1.01, >>>> 10.65 >>>> Tasks: 245 total, 2 running, 235 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie >>>> %Cpu(s): 5.0 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.6 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, >>>> 0.0 st >>>> KiB Mem: 8056428 total, 3870692 used, 4185736 free, 134676 buffers >>>> KiB Swap: 1951740 total, 1769720 used, 182020 free. 1161048 cached >>>> Mem >>>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ >>>> COMMAND >>>> 10665 joe 20 0 3832944 239268 63624 S 11.9 3.0 6649:51 >>>> plasma-desk+ >>>> 15697 joe 20 0 511896 50588 35968 S 5.3 0.6 0:05.17 >>>> konsole >>>> 10241 root 20 0 419892 148588 99172 S 4.0 1.8 1567:26 Xorg >>>> 10659 joe 20 0 3247440 90844 18280 S 0.7 1.1 642:54.34 kwin >>>> 18274 joe 20 0 1841712 181908 16 S 0.7 2.3 50:10.02 >>>> chrome ***** (1) >>>> 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 75:00.93 >>>> rcuos/0 >>>> 487 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 464:58.53 >>>> irq/44-iwlw+ >>>> 1174 root 20 0 4388 224 100 S 0.3 0.0 112:21.59 >>>> acpid >>>> 14574 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.42 >>>> kworker/u16+ >>>> 15757 joe 20 0 24964 3168 2568 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.81 top >>>> 31023 joe 20 0 1752576 36352 0 S 0.3 0.5 149:49.69 >>>> chrome ***** (2) >>>> 1 root 20 0 37500 2096 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.22 init >>>> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.73 >>>> kthreadd >>>> 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 10:32.60 >>>> ksoftirqd/0 >>>> 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 >>>> kworker/0:0H >>>> 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 136:59.67 >>>> rcu_sched >>>> 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 23:30.73 >>>> rcuos/1 >>>> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 44:27.97 >>>> rcuos/2 >>>> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 25:53.54 >>>> rcuos/3 >>>> 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >>>> rcuos/4 >>>> 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >>>> rcuos/5 >>>> 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >>>> rcuos/6 >>>> 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >>>> rcuos/7 >>>> 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 >>>> rcu_bh >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen