#790347 lightdm: visiting googlemaps with iceweasel boosts the cpu usage up to almost 100% and makes the machine almost unusable

Package:
xorg
Source:
xorg
Description:
X.Org X Window System
Submitter:
olsen
Date:
2015-09-16 20:09:09 UTC
Severity:
important
#790347#5
Date:
2015-06-28 10:56:53 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
	 browsing websites like googlemaps slows down my computer, htop indicates
	 USER: 'root' CPU: '98%' Command: '/usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch'
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
		 opening googlemaps e.g.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Roundhouse/@51.501822,-0.1776486,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48761ae583feca3d:0xda651372738f331e?hl=en
   * What was the outcome of this action?
	 severe cut down of computer's performance
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
	 less cpu usage, same process on other website like
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html ranges between 3-8%
#790347#10
Date:
2015-08-22 05:37:47 UTC
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control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo


Why exactly are you reporting this against lightdm?
#790347#17
Date:
2015-09-07 10:41:27 UTC
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Hi,

Guess this is due to a misjudgement, should be reported as a bug in X I
suppose. Apologies!
#790347#22
Date:
2015-09-07 14:50:34 UTC
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Please reassign then.

Regards,