Chrome, the cpu eater

[K3nobi]

There was 2 tabs open, one is Google Meet for my online class, another is YouTube, watching Linus' today's stream VOD bcs I missed it. (The stream was damn early in the morning)

 

It was really slow, I just kinda deal with it. Until I touched back of laptop (Asus Transformer Book T100Chi), it's warm, not uncomfortable, just warm. So I fired up task manager to see what's up, and the cpu was fluctuating from 60-100% usage. So I close the Linus' stream VOD to see what happen, and it's still the same. Here's the screenshot I took:

 

Here's another one, different time, on processes tab this time

 

And here's the app that's running in the background:

 

(From top left to right bottom): SD Card (My father said not to remove it, it's his laptop), Intel stuff, WIndows Security stuff, Chrome is using my mic, Asus smart gesture, Google Drive backupandsync, HWInfo32, Task manager. (If I remember correctly this is for the 2nd pic, the first pic background app thingy doesn't have HWinfo32 in the background)

 

I have 3 chrome extension installed:Adblocker, h264ify, Volume control

Adblocker icon is green because I disable it for Google Meet site.

h264ify is on (I think, can't remember)

Volume control is off

 

Anyone knows how to make chrome lighter to run? Or is it my laptop just pure sh*t? (dk if u can curse here so just gonna play it safe)

Edited June 17, 2020 by General K3nobi
typo title lol

[Fasauceome]

Those quad core atoms are worse than cell phone CPUs. I used to have an Asus transformer, and yeah, any little task will chomp that CPU up. Even watching YouTube videos would fail to load due to excessive processing requirements.

[kelvinhall05]

Livestreaming voice and potentially video or your screen and you seriously wonder why a little Atom struggles?

 

 

Put Linux on that thing, at least you will get a little more performance out of it.

[Tan3l6]

Some background coinminer maybe?

[K3nobi]

16 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

you seriously wonder why a little Atom struggles?

ok i forgot i got an Atom in here, my expectation is a bit too high. At least the keyboard's detachable

[K3nobi]

14 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Some background coinminer maybe?

I don't think so....?

[K3nobi]

20 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Even watching YouTube videos would fail to load due to excessive processing requirements.

Yeah even with h264ify extension it's still crap, It's amazing how 5 years old mobile cpu is shit meanwhile 5 years old desktop cpu is still pretty dang usable in 2020

[Tan3l6]

2 minutes ago, General K3nobi said:

I don't think so....?

Doesn't hurt to try - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minerblock/emikbbbebcdfohonlaifafnoanocnebl?hl=en

[K3nobi]

Just now, Tan3l6 said:

Doesn't hurt to try - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minerblock/emikbbbebcdfohonlaifafnoanocnebl?hl=en

What if this extension use more usage than before installing? I mean I haven't tried it but I heard extension use quite a bit of cpu for processing

[Tan3l6]

Just now, General K3nobi said:

What if this extension use more usage than before installing? I mean I haven't tried it but I heard extension use quite a bit of cpu for processing

You can just remove it?

[gloop]

I’m not surprised, sometimes my old Celeron would just refuse to boot into Windows. 

[K3nobi]

1 minute ago, Tan3l6 said:

You can just remove it?

hmm ok then

[nanopone]

two options:

• uninstall adblock, install ublock origin. it's significantly faster and safer.
• switch to a different browser, like firefox.