Thanks, Zos. I contact the website’s support group. The attributed the difficulty to a “rogue ad,” over which they said they had minimal control. The suggested an ad blocker. I use one, but I had whitelisted the site to support the magazine They offer “ad free access,” which I’m checking into. Eric
> On Jul 19, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some websites are just poorly coded too. If they have videos and lots > of embeds running its pretty easy to eat up your processor quickly. > Chrome often surprises me with how much CPU it uses. > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks, PJ. I use an ad blocker, too. I may have white listed the Atlantic >> site. >> >>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:12 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Malformed adverts. I've had web pages with such horrible scripts that they >>> hang the web browser and require a restart. That's the main reason I've >>> employed an ad blocker. I can ignore the ads. >>> >>> >>> On 7/19/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >>>> Recently—a day or two ago—I noticed that my MacBook Air was emitting a >>>> low-pitched hissing sound, as if a fan were running. I first noticed this >>>> when I had been processing photos in Lightroom for a while. But I’m >>>> experiencing it now and all I have open are Safari and Mail. >>>> >>>> I ran Activity Monitor and found two tasks that were using a high >>>> percentage of CPU. One was a kernel task. The other showed the web address >>>> of The Atlantic Magazine, which I had open at the time. The percent of CPU >>>> it was using ranged between the mid-50s and the mid-90s. >>>> >>>> I killed that process, the Atlantic page was reloaded, and the fan noise >>>> has stopped. Why would a web page use so much processor capacity? >>>> >>>> Thanks and apologies for being so wildly off-topic, >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Eric Weir >>>> Decatur, GA USA >>>> eew...@bellsouth.net >>>> >>>> "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." >>>> >>>> - Amos Oz >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. >>> America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. >>> - P.J. O'Rourke >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> >> “Man has been a murderer forever.” >> >> - Peter Matthiessen. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
