[vtkusers] vtk web pages eat CPU

Andy Cedilnik andy.cedilnik at kitware.com
Wed Apr 7 13:11:51 EDT 2004


Hi John,

I do not see this behavior. Please try the following page and let me
know if you see the same problem:

http://www.itk.org/Doxygen14/html/classes.html

Thank you.

			Andy

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:34, John Hunter wrote:
> 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
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