http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/todayAnns.do hogs cpu

[bill czermak]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope - released in April 2009.

Firefox 3.0.13

CPU goes to 100% on Sempron 3100

Drops to 15%-25% if webpage is killed

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I could not reproduce this. Please try the following:

Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox -ProfileManager

[bill czermak (bcz)]

Hi Micah

This last hour the problem has not been occuring.

Probably started about a week ago. (maybe longer) Symptom was very slow
response times.

Using system monitor I got 2 results.

Initially JAVA was reporting ~75% cpu with the state suggesting it was
waiting some action ( idle ?)

Later Firefox was reporting very high CPU

Closing open windows showed asx.com.au was problem.

I have typed "firefox -ProfileManager" in a terminal window and it
starts OK.

What do I do next? Edit >preferences>applications and disable a few
things ?

Likely this is a problem with the website; Any thoughts welcome

Rgds Bill C

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I could not reproduce this.
> Please try the following:
>
> Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can
> conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the
> problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to
> test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your
> extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic
> one.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[bill czermak (bcz)]

Just checked again, starting with -ProfileManager option

It is using 100% CPU again

Rgds Bill

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I could not reproduce this.
> Please try the following:
>
> Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can
> conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the
> problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to
> test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your
> extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic
> one.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[bill czermak (bcz)]

Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I could not reproduce this.
> Please try the following:
>
> Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can
> conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the
> problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to
> test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your
> extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic
> one.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
Further information

CPU goes to 100% when Quantas advert at top of page is active. I am
using onboard gpu on K8M800-M2 Rev 2 motherboard. S3 UniChrome Pro
2D/3D Graphics with standard Ubuntu driver install.

It I page down so advert is not visible, then CPU usage reverts to normal.

I think it is a case of slow video chipset with fancy 3D effects. I
notice other sites also run slow at times. ie Melbourne age newspaper
and suspect similar issues.

Guess its old hardware and not worth the effort to improve the drivers

Rgds Bill

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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