Firefox and chrome chewing CPU since updates
 

So, I was away all week on vacation (during that time my system was
halted and unplugged) and when I got back I had 56 or so updates waiting
for me (Ubuntu 12.04 64bit) including a kernel update and various other
things.

I applied these and rebooted. Now whenever I start a browser, either
the default Firefox or Chrome (I use the main/stable version from the
dl.google.com repository), it sucks up TONS of CPU.

Firefox is usually chewing at least 60% CPU and sometimes jumps to 120%
or more (I have an Intel Core2 Quad). top(1) says my system load is
constantly at 1.3 or above. This is with no extra tabs open and
about:blank on the single tab I do have.

Chrome is even worse, since it's multi-processing: when I start it there
are 3 to 4 chrome processes running each taking between 25% and 45% of a
CPU, and my system load goes up to 2.2 or higher, constantly.

The browsers seem to WORK just fine; I can surf the web and no problems
with internet connections, etc. Just my system is running like crazy,
not doing anything.

This was never a problem before these updates. Has anyone else seen
this, or have any idea what's going on? It's very odd that it's both
Firefox and Chrome, I admit, but if I stop them the load goes down and
none of my other apps (which, admittedly, I don't use too many different
apps--mostly Emacs, rxvt, Evolution, etc.) seem to show this problem.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I've tried strace on these but see
nothing interesting: chrome seems to be hanging on a futex (but not fast
enough for the kind of load I'm seeing) and Firefox seems to be failing
to read from a socket (but again, not fast enough for the load).

This is extremely frustrating.


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On 06/30/2012 10:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> So, I was away all week on vacation (during that time my system was
> halted and unplugged) and when I got back I had 56 or so updates waiting
> for me (Ubuntu 12.04 64bit) including a kernel update and various other
> things.
>
> I applied these and rebooted. Now whenever I start a browser, either
> the default Firefox or Chrome (I use the main/stable version from the
> dl.google.com repository), it sucks up TONS of CPU.
>
> Firefox is usually chewing at least 60% CPU and sometimes jumps to 120%
> or more (I have an Intel Core2 Quad). top(1) says my system load is
> constantly at 1.3 or above. This is with no extra tabs open and
> about:blank on the single tab I do have.
>
> Chrome is even worse, since it's multi-processing: when I start it there
> are 3 to 4 chrome processes running each taking between 25% and 45% of a
> CPU, and my system load goes up to 2.2 or higher, constantly.
>
> The browsers seem to WORK just fine; I can surf the web and no problems
> with internet connections, etc. Just my system is running like crazy,
> not doing anything.
>
> This was never a problem before these updates. Has anyone else seen
> this, or have any idea what's going on? It's very odd that it's both
> Firefox and Chrome, I admit, but if I stop them the load goes down and
> none of my other apps (which, admittedly, I don't use too many different
> apps--mostly Emacs, rxvt, Evolution, etc.) seem to show this problem.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? I've tried strace on these but see
> nothing interesting: chrome seems to be hanging on a futex (but not fast
> enough for the kind of load I'm seeing) and Firefox seems to be failing
> to read from a socket (but again, not fast enough for the load).
>
> This is extremely frustrating.
>
>

Yes. I saw the same behavior with 10.04. Chromium, firefox and
thunderbird were all affected. I rebooted a second time and the
situation seems to have improved. I'm unsure yet whether there is still
a problem. It seems that it was either the kernel or the microcode
update that caused the problem.

Nataraj


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Paul,

Nick

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>
> This is extremely frustrating.
>
It seems every time there's an upgrade things get messed up inside. Maybe I don't understand the Linux philosophy enough. I'm not a system person. I use Ubuntu on my computers I enjoy trying to figure things out but it's very frustrating.
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On 07/01/2012 12:33 AM, Nataraj wrote:
> On 06/30/2012 10:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>> So, I was away all week on vacation (during that time my system was
>> halted and unplugged) and when I got back I had 56 or so updates waiting
>> for me (Ubuntu 12.04 64bit) including a kernel update and various other
>> things.
>>
>> I applied these and rebooted. Now whenever I start a browser, either
>> the default Firefox or Chrome (I use the main/stable version from the
>> dl.google.com repository), it sucks up TONS of CPU.
>>
>> Firefox is usually chewing at least 60% CPU and sometimes jumps to 120%
>> or more (I have an Intel Core2 Quad). top(1) says my system load is
>> constantly at 1.3 or above. This is with no extra tabs open and
>> about:blank on the single tab I do have.
>>
>> Chrome is even worse, since it's multi-processing: when I start it there
>> are 3 to 4 chrome processes running each taking between 25% and 45% of a
>> CPU, and my system load goes up to 2.2 or higher, constantly.
>>
>> The browsers seem to WORK just fine; I can surf the web and no problems
>> with internet connections, etc. Just my system is running like crazy,
>> not doing anything.
>>
>> This was never a problem before these updates. Has anyone else seen
>> this, or have any idea what's going on? It's very odd that it's both
>> Firefox and Chrome, I admit, but if I stop them the load goes down and
>> none of my other apps (which, admittedly, I don't use too many different
>> apps--mostly Emacs, rxvt, Evolution, etc.) seem to show this problem.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this behavior? I've tried strace on these but see
>> nothing interesting: chrome seems to be hanging on a futex (but not fast
>> enough for the kind of load I'm seeing) and Firefox seems to be failing
>> to read from a socket (but again, not fast enough for the load).
>>
>> This is extremely frustrating.
>>
>>
> Yes. I saw the same behavior with 10.04. Chromium, firefox and
> thunderbird were all affected. I rebooted a second time and the
> situation seems to have improved. I'm unsure yet whether there is still
> a problem. It seems that it was either the kernel or the microcode
> update that caused the problem.
>
> Nataraj
>

Maybe this was caused by the leap second issue. See
http://www.google.com/search?ix=acb&sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channe l=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=leap+second+linux

Nataraj




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Nataraj,

What ended up doing is reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04 several times after installing some drivers. I still can't get my printer to work & the mic works but I can't connect Skype to it.


Nick

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>
> Yes. I saw the same behavior with 10.04. Chromium, firefox and
> thunderbird were all affected. I rebooted a second time and the
> situation seems to have improved. I'm unsure yet whether there is still
> a problem. It seems that it was either the kernel or the microcode
> update that caused the problem.
>
> Nataraj
>
>
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On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 16:42 +0900, Nick Bikkal wrote:
> > This is extremely frustrating.
> >
> It seems every time there's an upgrade things get messed up inside.
> Maybe I don't understand the Linux philosophy enough. I'm not a system
> person. I use Ubuntu on my computers I enjoy trying to figure things
> out but it's very frustrating.

Actually I've been using Ubuntu for more than 6 years and I update every
time a new package is available and I can count on the fingers of one
hand the times that this has introduced a regression.

Looks like this was the leap second thing because a second reboot (after
12am) fixed the problem.

Strange, as there have been leap seconds added to Linux systems many
times over the years and I've never seen this happen before.


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On 07/01/2012 01:32 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

So, I was away all week on vacation (during that time my system was
halted and unplugged) and when I got back I had 56 or so updates waiting
for me (Ubuntu 12.04 64bit) including a kernel update and various other
things.

I applied these and rebooted. Now whenever I start a browser, either
the default Firefox or Chrome (I use the main/stable version from the
dl.google.com repository), it sucks up TONS of CPU.

Firefox is usually chewing at least 60% CPU and sometimes jumps to 120%
or more (I have an Intel Core2 Quad). top(1) says my system load is
constantly at 1.3 or above. This is with no extra tabs open and
about:blank on the single tab I do have.

Chrome is even worse, since it's multi-processing: when I start it there
are 3 to 4 chrome processes running each taking between 25% and 45% of a
CPU, and my system load goes up to 2.2 or higher, constantly.

The browsers seem to WORK just fine; I can surf the web and no problems
with internet connections, etc. Just my system is running like crazy,
not doing anything.

This was never a problem before these updates. Has anyone else seen
this, or have any idea what's going on? It's very odd that it's both
Firefox and Chrome, I admit, but if I stop them the load goes down and
none of my other apps (which, admittedly, I don't use too many different
apps--mostly Emacs, rxvt, Evolution, etc.) seem to show this problem.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I've tried strace on these but see
nothing interesting: chrome seems to be hanging on a futex (but not fast
enough for the kind of load I'm seeing) and Firefox seems to be failing
to read from a socket (but again, not fast enough for the load).

This is extremely frustrating.




I find that chrome is also often eating a lot of my CPU cycles (talk
about green computing!),
but more than often it's because certain tabs that I have open use flash
or some other
method to chew away at the CPU. If you open chrome on a simple html page
that doesn't do flashy

things, you should find it to be much much better behaving.

Another CPU black hole is thunderbird, not because it's thunderbird, but
if you have
several accounts and tag them to check your account(s), there is going
to be a lot of
IO on small files. that's a killer for your CPU as the I/O will block
your CPU.


I also found picasa to be pretty bad, as this can also be configured to
pay attention to
your disk (for new files). dropbox is another potential client for
this. All in all, with our
modern desktops that watch out for us, it kills performance. I used to
be able to
compile a particular package i develop in 3 minutes, now i wait for 8
minutes till it's done.


One task I found useful to run (apart from xload) is iotop (you need to
be root for this),

maybe there are other good programs for this, but you'd be surprised.

One thing I've now had several times is that for totally unclear reasons
the load on my
system climbs to well over 10,and for several minutes I loose complete
control of the
desktop. The mouse will generally move, but it won't change focus or
allow me to do anything.
Extremely frustrating. By several times I'd say this is once or twice a
week.



peter


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