I agree.. not intuitive but as soon as I turned it off Chrome stopped being such a CPU hog. One Tab just parks all your tabs in a single tab (so you don't lose them) and in doing so reduces it's memory footprint. Seems it helps in Windows too: http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2254813/hardware-acceleration-turned-yields-results.html -- [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 8:53 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >