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Re: wow, that chrome helper sure eats up the cycles



I watch this pretty closely and I see Firefox as the worse offender, 
followed by 
Chrome and then Safari.  (Mac OSX obviously).

The CPU usage will vary with what you have down with the browser. If you 
view 
videos or have Java applets running and lots of open sites it get's comic. 
I 
have seen Firefox use 80% on a fast machine.

Turn everything off - it is unfortunate - but it is the only way to get 
your 
machine back.

Keith
 Keith McMillen 
www.keithmcmillen.com 
www.beamfoundation.org 
"Music For A New Reason"



----- Original Message ----
From: Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 9:09:09 AM
Subject: Re: wow, that chrome helper sure eats up the cycles

Warren, et alia,

It's usually a good idea to turn EVERYTHING that's not involved in the
signal generation or processing OFF on either WIndows or OS X when
you're using a computer for audio. I was shocked to see how much
difference some of the seemingly innocuous things we run for "general"
computing made when left running when trying to use the computer for
any audio-related activities. One of the big culprits is the graphics
card...Airport, FileSharing (there's constant "pinging" going on
there), the list goes on ...

http://soundcloud.com/usrsbin
http://audiozoloft.com
http://usrslashsbin.angrek.com/



On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> 
wrote:
> I'm running on OSX, and I use Chrome as a browser mostly, although this 
>may
> well apply to Windows too.
> I was wondering why my system, processing-heavy tho it is, seemed to be
> taxing my new computer more than I thought reasonable. So I looked in
> activity monitor - Chrome helper was eating 41% of a cpu! killed it, and
> things are better.
> Note, this was *after* having quit Chrome and shut off Airport!
>
> --
> Warren
> http://www.warrensirota.com
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>