On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:29:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 02 März 2010, 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. > > without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about > javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a > tremendous amount of cpu load.
No flash, but there is a usual amount of animated gifs and javascript. Nothing over the top, just normal stuff for a forum. And this is the only forum of many where this happens. I've disabled js for the domain, I'll run it for a few days and see what happens. I fear konqueror may go the way of amarok, and be replaced by rekong. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
