Fish Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Is anybody else seeing Xorg consume all available cpu cycles while veiwing Facebook? Think it's only started happening in the last week or so, but it's definitely Facebook that's causing it; switching to another tab will drop Xorg down to a reasonable rate. Disabling my extensions makes no difference and I don't have any desktop effects running. I am slighlty bemused as to why Xorg would be affected in this way anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Veteran Posted July 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 13, 2008 That is quite the anomaly, in my experience the only thing that ever gave my computer a little bit of a hassle (meaning just got the fans going) was extended Youtube viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew S. Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Could it be the excessive use of Ajax on facebook that causes it? try disabling javascript for facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted July 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 14, 2008 It's actually X that is going crazy there? The base X Window system? Not the application (firefox/flash/etc), or the Window Manager/Desktop Environment? Interesting. I will have to check that out and see what happens when I browse there on my fluxbox install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 Mark, yes according to Top Xorg is racing away... Tasks: 105 total, 3 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 89.3%us, 10.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 766868k total, 756212k used, 10656k free, 197576k buffers Swap: 979924k total, 0k used, 979924k free, 278828k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6208 root 20 0 355m 91m 10m R 72.9 12.2 2:30.86 Xorg 7135 fish 20 0 218m 74m 22m S 23.6 10.0 0:41.89 firefox 6883 fish 20 0 76448 20m 12m R 2.0 2.8 0:01.36 gnome-terminal 1728 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:00.12 scsi_eh_1 4924 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:00.04 kjournald 6577 fish 20 0 15956 2604 1668 S 0.7 0.3 0:00.98 gnome-screensav 1 root 20 0 2844 1688 544 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.76 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0 44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 125 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod ... but, yeah, I can use NoScript to block Facebook and all is good, but I find it strange how it's Xorg that affected. Guess I'll have to see how useable FB is without scripts running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 Aaaannd the answer is.... not very well. The site generally works, but a lot of the functionality doesn't. Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 I think I may have got this one. I've had a load of updates recently, and I was trying to think of something that may be somehow related to this. It was then that I remembered Flash was updated to 10 not so long ago, and possibly around the same time as I started having problems on FB. Sure enough, reverting to Flash 9 seems to have solved this for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Yeah, Flash 10 is in Beta. It's pretty unstable so stick with version 9 for now until 10 is released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Facebook has been killing Firefox on me recently but I updated to the beta for 3.0.1 and it seemed to fix it. Although Firefox is running at 181mb right now according to top and that's only having one tab open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCRATA Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Flash 10 also has caused major headaches for me on ubuntu 8.04. I reported it to them. Hopefully they will fix it (EX. toyota.com with flash 10 is unusable. on flash 9 is smooth as butter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Flash 10 also has caused major headaches for me on ubuntu 8.04. I reported it to them. Hopefully they will fix it (EX. toyota.com with flash 10 is unusable. on flash 9 is smooth as butter) I just went on there now and it's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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