On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au> wrote:
My wife complained to me about www.royalshow.com.au "not working".
She was quite right - it is running like a dog with firefox 15.0.1 on Xorg. A little digging shows that whenever it is being displayed on the screen Xorg saturates the CPU core it is on. Click on another browser
A web site doesn't make Xorg use more CPU time. A browser may decide to do things that trigger excessive Xorg CPU use, some of that may be due to limitations in hardware (IE having a video device with limited capabilities which forces more things to be done in software) but probably most of that will be due to the application. Viewing that site in Chromium on my E4600 system with a ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450] PCIe video card didn't cause any noticable increase in CPU use. Presumably that's mainly because Chromium is better than Firefox, but the CPU and video card I'm using may have something to do with it. There have been times in the past where I routinely had multiple web browsers installed so I could try a few until I got one that worked with a site. But nowadays Chromium just works for me. Chromium is rather memory hungry, but as systems with 3G of RAM can be obtained as trash that's not a big problem if you restrain yourself to less than a dozen open tabs. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/