Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Certain Wikipedia pages cause high CPU core usage on Linux

I have noticed it for some time that one of my 8 CPU cores would all of a sudden would remain running at 100% usage and that it was related to the Chrome browser. However, at any time I have several instances of the Chrome browser open each with multiple tabs, so I was never sure which web page was triggering this issue.

Today (7/14/2020), I was finally able to pinpoint the cause of the this issue. Previously, I had already a suspicion it was following Wikipedia web page, but until today I was not sure: 

Reference:
  1. Google Chrome Version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit)
  2. Operating system: Fedora 32 (workstation edition; updated as of 7/14/2020)


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