metageek.livejournal.com ([identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jducoeur 2008-05-09 01:05 pm (UTC)

Re: Huh

Curious -- this isn't Linux, it's Windows.

Right. I meant that maybe the reason I wasn't seeing it eat CPU was that it just wasn't working for me.

I haven't restarted the browser in a good while (most of a week).

That could be it, then. If it's FF2, that could definitely be it; I try to keep mine open indefinitely, but I always have to restart sooner or later, what with memory leaks and all. (3.0 is supposed to have fixed most of those.)

Actually, memory leaks could explain the CPU usage: garbage collection can be extremely CPU-intensive in pathological cases—e.g., when JavaScript is repeatedly polling the chat server, constructing and discarding objects representing the connections.


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