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

[Sylvain Hubert]

> 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 at elvenkind.com> wrote:

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> > On 29 Oct 2020, at 12:44, Sylvain Hubert <champignoom at 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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