On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:07 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firefox 61.0.1 on Xubuntu 16.04.
>
> I have tried Chrome, Midori, and lots of other browsers, but they all
> fail to provide all the functionality that I need. And they tend to be
> just as gluttonous as Firefox anyway.
>
> The big problem is CPU usage. The computer has 16GB of RAM, and I never
> come close to using all of it. But Firefox usually takes most of the
> CPU. This leaves me little for ripping and encoding movies, which is
> also very CPU intensive.
>
> I found a little program called cpulimit, which doesn't quite work. I
> launched Firefox yesterday with 'cpulimit -l 20 firefox' and right now
> Firefox itself is taking a mere 3% of the CPU, but there are currently
> four Firefox child processes ('contentproc') and one of them is taking
> 80%. This wouldn't be annoying if it was just a temporary usage while
> it was loading a web page or something, but it has been stuck at 80%
> for the past hour, even though all Firefox windows are minimized.
>
> The only way to get Firefox to behave is to kill it completely. And if
> I then re-launch it, even though I have it restore the previous
> session, it initially takes little of the CPU, but by a couple hours
> later it is back to taking almost all of it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> In the past I've used 'nice' to invoke nasty batch processes, to keep them
from totally taking over the cpu. I've never tried it with a browser, but
it might be interesting to see if it helps any.
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