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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
EstimatedDays: ----
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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High CPU usage when scrolling pages with many image/graphics. High CPU usage playing Youtube videos.

Reported by leom4...@gmail.com, Mar 16 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/56.0.2924.76 Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open a HD Youtube video or a website with lots of graphics/images/gradients.
2. Scroll up and down, back and forth.
3. See CPU usage go up close to the maximum on all 4 Threads.

What is the expected behavior?
In Firefox the CPU usage goes up to about 30% average on each Thread, when scrolling. I was expecting similar in Chromium.

What went wrong?
Chromium shutters when I scroll pages with a lot of graphics/images/gradients or play Youtube videos.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.76  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Kernel 4.4.0-66 Mint 18.1
Flash Version: Not installed

I use a Thinkpad x230 with i7 3520M (Intel HD 4000 Graphics), 16GB RAM, SSD. Just in case.
 

Comment 1 by leom4...@gmail.com, Mar 17 2017

I just figured out that it's the chrome process with '--type=renderer' which causes the heavy load.

For the first 10-20 seconds the process remains calm (< 30% CPU usage per Thread). After about 10-20 seconds of moving images (scrolling/video) all threads run up to ~100% almost immediately.

Comment 2 by leom4...@gmail.com, Mar 18 2017

I played around with chrome flags and can't reproduce the problem any more.
The CPU usage is now on a similar level as Firefox.




Labels: Needs-Milestone
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for filing the issue.
As per comment#2, marking this issue as Wontfix.

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