On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs > Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive. > > I've tried various tricks to see what is going on when it does this, > including strace, to no avail. I have a hunch this started when I > installed konq- plugins, I have these enabled: > > Adblock > bookmarklets > Crashes Monitor > KTHML settings > Konqueror feed icon > Search bar > translate > User Agent Changer > Web Archiver > > My next step is to start the laborious process of disabling them one by one > to see if it makes a difference. Meanwhile, does anyone have suggestions > for clever trouble-shooting techniques to apply here? > > I doubt anyone will have a solution to hand, just some pointers to likely > things to check is all I'm after at this stage.
Some of the animated gifs can start eating up resources. Over-elaborate avatars can also have the same effect and when people start using both gifs and flash animations the there may be a combination that causes the problems you describe. Anyway, just an idea. Try it with an old machine and see if the symptoms get worse/sooner. -- Regards, Mick
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