[vtkusers] vtk web pages eat CPU

[John Hunter]

On my linux box running mozilla firebird, opening up vtk documentation
from http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classes.html eats my CPU
alive.  I tend to do tab browsing, and will often have documentation
for several classes open at a time in different tabs.  Currently my
CPU usage (3GHz P4, 1GB RAM) for my browser is

 4474 jdhunter  25   0 46724  44M 16436 R    99.6  4.4  75:02   1 MozillaFirebi

I've spent some time making sure this is really specific to VTK web
documentation and it is.  This problem has been consistently occurring
over the last month.  Even if I open a single page and leave my
computer idle, the CPU will climb to about 30% and stay there.  When I
close the VTK page and open another one it goes away.  The total CPU
usage is proportional to the number of vtk doc pages I have open.

Perhaps this is something arising from that floating navigation helper
that was recently introduced (but it doesn't go away when I click
close on that thingie.)

Strange, but true,
John Hunter


hunter:~/python/examples/vtk> uname -a
Linux hunter.paradise.lost 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

hunter:~/python/examples/vtk> MozillaFirebird --version
Mozilla 1.5a, Copyright (c) 2003 mozilla.org, build 2003060808