Re: Problem with Jessie, Chrome, and Icedove
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On 05/11/2015 10:07 AM, Charles Chambers wrote:
> I had a bug when I installed Jessie, and I'd like to finish
> confirming it.
>
> This is happening on a Dell Optiplex 620GX with 2 gigs of RAM, and a
> dual core processor on the CPU. It also has an Intel graphics
> adapter onboard. It's a pretty common workstation in the corporate
> world, so I'm surprised that it's not working with Jessie.
>
> There are two issues:
>
> 1) The GPU process in Google Chrome takes up 50 percent plus of the
> CPU utilization - not memory, CPU utilization - and on both cores.
> Nothing else can run, or one of the CPU cores will saturate and the
> computer slows to a crawl.
>
> 2) Additionally, when I run icedove (Thunderbird) by itself, I get
> one of the CPU cores at 100 percent utilization, and the second one
> runs between 30 and 50 percent utilization. I can't run Chrome at
> the same time, and in Wheezy I used to have those two idling in the
> background while I'm working in foreground with whatever.
>
> Using the --disable-GPU command line parameter in Chrome cures the
> problem somewhat with Chrome by itself, but it's not a panacea.
> Short of recompiling icedove, I haven't found anything yet that fixes
> the problem with icedove.
>
> Anyone have any idea what changed from Wheezy to cause this?
>
How did you install Jessie? Is icedove rebuilding the search database?
That would slow things down until rebuilt.
icedove: prefs -> advanced -> Advanced Configuration, Enable Global
Search and Indexer
A normal upgrade from wheezy won't need to rebuild that database.
This jessie laptop is a 2 Gb Acer, core 2 duo, Intel 965GM graphics
chipset. With chromium, icedove and iceweasel open as I type, cpu usage
is 2%.
No ideas about your chrome.
Good luck!
Ralph
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