Hi all,
In the Safari shipped with the latest macOS Sierra beta, as well as Safari Tech
Preview 9, there's an odd CPU usage issue with individual tab's web processes.
For example, if one navigates to huffingtonpost.com
<http://huffingtonpost.com/>, Activity Monitor will show the tab web process
continually using 5-10% of CPU, along with hundreds of idle wake-ups. Even more
concerning, this continues to happen with the huffingtonpost.com
<http://huffingtonpost.com/> web process even if one picks another tab in the
window.
Here's a screenshot from Activity Monitor; one Safari window is open. It has
two tabs: polymail.io <http://polymail.io/>, and about:blank <about:blank>.
about:blank <about:blank> is the one currently in focus.
To investigate, I opened Web Inspector and recorded the JS/event timeline. I
found that there were timers firing quite frequently.
Now, I know Safari/WebKit should be throttling timers of background tabs
anyway, but I figured I'd `clearInterval` all the timers to see if that reduces
the CPU usage. Nope (even though I verified no timers are firing any longer
after clearing all the intervals — no activity on the timeline whatsoever; CPU
usage and idle wake ups still way too high).
This doesn't happen with *every* page, but it happens with most that are
reasonably complex (can't tell what the trigger is yet; perhaps the use of
JavaScript timers?)
The previous Sierra beta's Safari and Tech Preview 8 both showed this problem.
I don't know whether it goes further back.
Any ideas what's going on? Is this 'expected behavior' and I'm missing
something obvious?
Thanks,
Chris
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