Friday, November 6, 2009

CPU Usage

I miss not having a multiprocessor (multicore these days) system.

While tracking down why a 720p video suddenly started losing audio sync, I discovered that Firefox was using excessive amounts of CPU. I had a Google Wave tab open so I closed that first since it is only beta (alpha?) software. Firefox's CPU usage dropped noticeably but it was still excessive. Next I closed the tab with the Google I/O conference key note videos. That did the trick. So lesson for the day is: don't open a page with ten embedded flash videos, watch one video, and then leave the tab open all day.

Unless you have multiprocessor system of course, then you want to keep all the CPUs busy. ^_^

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