[vtkusers] vtk web pages eat CPU

Jeff Lee jeff at cdnorthamerica.com
Wed Apr 7 13:56:04 EDT 2004


whatever you did, the cpu usage definitely went down for me.  it was 
chewing up 30%cpu before just to visit vtk.org

Andy Cedilnik wrote:

>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
>>_______________________________________________
>>This is the private VTK discussion list. 
>>Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq>
>>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>This is the private VTK discussion list. 
>Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq>
>Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>
>
>  
>

-- 
Jeff Lee
Senior Software Engineer
Computational Dynamics North America Ltd
21 Lafayette Street, Suite 230
Lebanon NH 03766 USA
fax:   603 643 9994
phone: 603 643 9993 x109
http://www.cd-adapco.com




More information about the vtkusers mailing list