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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> "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 >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > > “Man has been a murderer forever.” > > - Peter Matthiessen. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
