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Author: Stephen Partington
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Subject: Re: why is system getting stuck ...
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
>>
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>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> 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
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>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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, 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

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>>> 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
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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

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