[webkit-qt] Excessive timer usage results in 100% CPU usage

Benjamin Poulain benjamin.poulain at nokia.com
Fri Mar 26 03:44:22 PDT 2010


ext İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> Turns out that my extreme CPU usage was due to excessive timer usage. 
> Such a bug is reported 
> at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24913 but I am on WinCE where 
> there is no plugins and the page I am experiencing the CPU usage 
> is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=dinasour .
> 
> Did anyone experience a similar problem?

This seems unrelated to 24913.
Flash is known to trigger excessive timers, this is probably the cause 
of 24913. In your case, could you debug WebKit to search what is 
instantiating the timers?

cheers,
Benjamin


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