Chromium performance Raspi 2

[ldw]

I'm seeing poor (ish) performance of Chromium on my Raspi 2. I did take out the extension that killed ads, but that's the only change I've made. I'm not running multiple tabs - i see the cpu utilization get up to the high 80s often, and even pegged out at 100%. Is there something wrong with my Pi or is this the norm?

If so, I'm looking forward to Raspi 4.

[kusti8]

What websites? And why did you remove the ad blocker? That speeds up websites as well.

[cjan]

why stay V51?

[ldw]

Websites: www.wired.com is a good example. I see my utilization go up to between 50 and 75% on that site. Even this one, as I type to post this message is showing between 30 and 45% utilization (on that little graph in the upper right on the tool bar).

If I start a term and look at top, with just this tab active in chromium, I see two processes taking most of the time, both Chromium. One is taking 100 to 117% of the cpu and the other taking 5 to 13%. Perhaps the 117% is multiple threads in that Chromium process, but I'm guessing.

If I open a second tab and go to wired.com the overall utilization goes up to 70%+. I see three Chromium processes, 180, 100 and 15%. (180 + 100 + 15)/4 = 74 .... close enough).

Adblocker: I removed the adblocker because it was showing up on Chrome on my Windows PC and many of the sites I went to were not happy with the ad blocker. Some actually failing in peculiar ways. So I removed it. I suppose I could sign out of Chromium and re-install the ad-blocker. But someone will have to tell me which adblocker came with Jessie/Chromium. I failed to notice as I removed it.

V51: Yes, I am using version 51 of Chromium. Are you suggesting there is another version that performs better?

ldw

[kusti8]

Websites: http://www.wired.com is a good example. I see my utilization go up to between 50 and 75% on that site. Even this one, as I type to post this message is showing between 30 and 45% utilization (on that little graph in the upper right on the tool bar).

If I start a term and look at top, with just this tab active in chromium, I see two processes taking most of the time, both Chromium. One is taking 100 to 117% of the cpu and the other taking 5 to 13%. Perhaps the 117% is multiple threads in that Chromium process, but I'm guessing.

If I open a second tab and go to wired.com the overall utilization goes up to 70%+. I see three Chromium processes, 180, 100 and 15%. (180 + 100 + 15)/4 = 74 .... close enough).

Adblocker: I removed the adblocker because it was showing up on Chrome on my Windows PC and many of the sites I went to were not happy with the ad blocker. Some actually failing in peculiar ways. So I removed it. I suppose I could sign out of Chromium and re-install the ad-blocker. But someone will have to tell me which adblocker came with Jessie/Chromium. I failed to notice as I removed it.

V51: Yes, I am using version 51 of Chromium. Are you suggesting there is another version that performs better?

ldw

On a Pi2 that is around the norm. The Pi3 performs a bit better. The ad blocker was uBlock Origin BTW. You could still use Epiphany, but it is very buggy and unstable.

[ldw]

Thanks for the reply. I'll look forward to raspi 4. Hopefully it will have a good bump in memory and speed.

[cjan]

why stay V51?

found arch-arm chromium-V54 can play embed flash with HTML5.