I spend a lot of time working on my laptop, and you can tell when it's 'busy' (high non-idle CPU) because after a bit the fan speeds up and it sounds like it's about to take off.
I've been noticing that this happens when I've got multiple tabs open in a Chrome window, and one of them is Gmail, although it's one of the hidden/background tabs. Looking at the task manager, Chrome is taking ~50%.
As soon as I make Gmail the foreground tab, the CPU usage drops back down (and eventually the fan slows down).
The high CPU doesn't seem to happen immediately - haven't done much experimenting to measure after how long it kicks in, or tried using other browsers. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?
Not really a problem, although I guess it would cut your battery life if you didn't notice it. I'm running Windows 7.
Last edited by: Focusless on Fri 1 Nov 13 at 13:37
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It might not be Gmail, but I would stake my grannies life on it being a flash app on one of the pages.
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Do you mean a flash app running in the gmail tab, or somewhere else?
Just happened again - noticed CPU was high, gmail was a background tab, closed it (without bringing it to foreground) and CPU went back to normal idle level.
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Just tested Gmail on the mac, you using chrome? it has a highish cpu use due to some plugin and helper with gmail.
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'Normal' (chrome) CPU use appears to be ~1%, until something triggers something and it jumps up to ~50%. Haven't seen it drop back down again of its own accord as I close it down when I notice it, but might try leaving it next time.
It doesn't happen that often - sitting there now quite happily.
Last edited by: Focusless on Thu 7 Nov 13 at 08:06
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Chrome/Gmail interaction - Zero
