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Re: [LUG] Chromium Browser

 

On 16/08/15 15:32, Simon Avery wrote:
On 16 August 2015 at 13:58, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:


    Is chrome MPU capable - can it use lots of cores well? One problem
    with FF is a tab goes ape your stuck and have to kill the whole
    thing - it would be nice to be able to have the 'app' running on one
    core and the tabs being shared around the others so you can kill
    errand tabs...


Very much so, as each tab has its own process. The OS sorts out which
core it's assigned to like any other proc.

Unsure if one tab can use multiple cores - can't be many occasions when
that's a useful feature, though.



The thing is you don't want random core allocation - the browser needs to run in a separate core from the 'tabs' so that it can respond quickly to the user - if its in the same core as a looping process it can take a long time to respond to killing the damn thing.
Tom te tom te tom


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