Just as a test. Given how heavy my chrome usage is normally I have disabled GPU acceleration and I am now using 80% of my CPU load this is up from 14%now when opening browser pages. when i opened chrome in general I was up from 30% to Full CPU utilization. In this case My i7-7820 does not like my chrome use without GPU acceleration enabled. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > your article actually cites the real reason being the GPU drivers as being > the issue, and disabling the hardware acceleration stopped pushing bad > drivers. once they ripped and replaced their drivers their life went back > to normal. This would make tons of sense in that regard. > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:58 AM, JD Austin wrote: > >> 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-acceler >> ation-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 >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > -- 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