Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:46:15 -0500 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: High CPU usage by Firefox after screensaver kicks in Message-ID: <54E6BC17.1080508@aldan.algebra.com>
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Hello!
I'm observing a strange situation on this newly rebuilt 10.1-STABLE/i386
box. The running Firefox has a single window with two tabs open. It is
perfectly idle and consuming no CPU.
However, when the screensaver kicks in 3 minutes later, the CPU usage by
firefox climbs all the way up -- way past the screen-saver and the Xorg
process:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU
COMMAND
75533 me 43 40 0 453M 356M uwait 186:01 82.57%
firefox
77018 me 1 54 10 54772K 33876K RUN 3:13 8.06%
carousel
13854 root 1 41 0 90756K 22392K select 10:22 1.95% Xorg
As soon as I touch a mouse and the screen-saver disappears, firefox
calms down and the computer is 100% idle again. It is as if firefox is
programmed to do something CPU-intensive (protein-folding? SETI?) as
soon as the computer's screen-saver turns on.
Has anyone else seen this? What can be causing it? Thanks!
-mi
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