On 20 July 2010 12:37, ByteSoup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/07/10 11:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > No, that's definitely an Intel integrated graphics controller so I > > suppose that removes Nvidia from the equation. > > > > s/ > > I think I narrowed it down to whats causing it. At the advice of another > poster on launchpad, I created another user account and logged into that > account. I logged onto my work VPN, and then visited the site which > caused the problem it runs some java app but i think it also uses flash, > or at least it looks "flashy" and then noticed the cpu go up and then > down again, everything seemed fine. > > I then added "noscript" into firefox and tried it again and the problem > was reproduced. So I believe its browser based java and possibly flash. > But no amount of xserver restarts seems to solve the problem. As before > rebooting is quicker than trying to resolve it. I really wish I knew a > way of tracking the rogue process down and killing it off. Of course > avoiding the site in the first place is what I do, but there is a chance > I could stumble onto a site that causes the same symptoms. > > Again, that matches my experience. I found that Chrome is less, shall we say, explosive, than Firefox but it seems to sit with the interface with Flash and possibly Xorg - if you close Firefox the CPU will settle down but it takes a couple of minutes, which suggests to me that it's external to the browser.
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