> But it seems to be a big problem only on your machine
I fail to see what this implies.

> What hardware are you running on? Is it a Raspberry PI?
No, it's Core i5 + 8G ram + ssd.

> Like any TeX-related program, ConTeXt does a fair bit of disk access while starting up.
But none of the other TeX-related programs causes such a problem here.

> And it certainly should not have an effect on the CPU usage of any other program.
Indeed it should not have such an effect, so it failed to avoid what I should have avoided, and that's why it's a bug to be discovered and eliminated.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 13:56, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:


> On 29 Oct 2020, at 12:44, Sylvain Hubert <champignoom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just tried chromium which behaves a bit better but still experiences a sudden raise of cpu usage from <10% to >70% during ~1s.
> I've also noticed that, even without any browser running, each time after I compile a file with `context`, my terminal get stuck for ~1s.
> So I'm pretty sure this is a context bug, probably caused by unnecessary excessive disk operations or something.

But it seems to be a big problem only on your machine. What hardware are you running on? Is it a Raspberry PI?

Like any TeX-related program, ConTeXt does a fair bit of disk access while starting up, but I haven’t heard of that being an actual problem since the age of single-core CPUs. And it certainly should not have an effect on the CPU usage of any other program (it could affect system responsiveness, though).

Best wishes,
Taco




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