Re: [NTG-context] Bug: context/mtxrun makes Firefox eat up cpu

Hi Sylvain, This bug tracker report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599329 describes lagging / freezing (which are symptoms of excessive CPU usage, of course) for versions of Firefox from 70 to 74 inclusive on Manjaro. They also report Chromium seeing the same problem. These symptoms seem to be very similar to yours. Could you please try their steps to reproduce - namely view a video in Firefox - and do so from a fresh reboot without starting or invoking ConTeXt so we can be sure that it is excluded from the equation? If you get excessive CPU usage following their steps then it is Firefox at fault. If you don't then it might not be - unfortunately it only narrows it down to a 'might'. Regards,

On 29 Oct 2020, at 11:44, Sylvain Hubert 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.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 12:33, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 29 Oct 2020, at 12:19, Sylvain Hubert wrote:

And using safe mode here is just to make sure that the problem is not caused by extensions. The annoyance started long before I bothered opening firefox with an extra argument.

I am baffled then. I do not see the connection, at all.

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