From: Sylvain Hubert <champignoom@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug: context/mtxrun makes Firefox eat up cpu
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:14:49 +0100 [thread overview]
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> 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:
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> > 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 10:29 Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 11:00 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-29 11:15 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 11:19 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 11:31 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-29 11:44 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 12:55 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-29 14:14 ` Sylvain Hubert [this message]
2020-10-29 15:38 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-29 16:44 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 17:15 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-29 14:18 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 15:04 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-30 8:34 ` ntg
2020-10-30 9:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-10-30 18:44 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-30 19:14 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-30 19:26 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-30 18:48 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-30 19:28 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-29 11:26 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-10-29 15:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-10-29 16:56 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-04 15:01 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-05 10:48 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-05 11:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-11-05 11:49 ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-05 11:25 ` Hans Hagen
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