Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?
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@RasheedHolland I can not reproduce your issue on my Intel i5-7400 + NVidia PC, perhaps because i have 16 GB RAM and a fast SSD.
But i agree that older Vivaldi version were faster and less consuming resources.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
I don't use RSS feeds.
If you do not use Vivaldi Mail and Vivaldi Feeds, that is not the cause of your PC's performance issues.
OK I see.
@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland I can not reproduce your issue on my Intel i5-7400 + NVidia PC, perhaps because i have 16 GB RAM and a fast SSD.
But i agree that older Vivaldi version were faster and less consuming resources.
I don't have an issue with Vivaldi using slightly more RAM, and Vivaldi 6.8 is still fast on my machine.
But I do think that something is wrong with Vivaldi's design, it should not have these weird CPU spikes. Like I said, it doesn't seem to be triggered by any specific website and even without extensions I still see these spikes.
In other words, Viv 6.8 is acting abnormally. It's not clear if it's caused by the amount of open tabs, or by service workers, or the size of your cache, history or bookmark file. What's clear is that it's not caused by any third party (security) tool.
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@RasheedHolland Do you have pinned tabs and are tabs loaded delayed (Settings → General → Startup → lazy load and Always load pinned tabs)?
I get some ugly spikes when tabs are loaded delayed or after hibernating themselves after some time. -
@RasheedHolland Broken profiles or downgrades can cause strange issues.
I know that is much work, to restore or rebuild a Vivaldi profile, and i feel not very helpful to say you: "Let user repair profile". That is not the way i want to act. -
@RasheedHolland Free program ProcMon can monitor Vivaldi and perhaps you can see what happens when a spike/freezes appears.
Sorry to say, not easy to help with no deep insight in Vivaldi itself. -
I use this extension. Not so complete than an dedicated System Monitor app (Extension only 10KB), but enough to see spikes which are not normal and wich I don't also not experiment. Only in ocassions, most when Windows is preparing an update or things like this.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland Do you have pinned tabs and are tabs loaded delayed (Settings → General → Startup → lazy load and Always load pinned tabs)?
I get some ugly spikes when tabs are loaded delayed or after hibernating themselves after some time.No, I don't use the pinned tabs feature. I also don't use the Memory Saver because I assumed it may have been caused by this. But the CPU spikes still appeared.
@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland Broken profiles or downgrades can cause strange issues. I know that is much work, to restore or rebuild a Vivaldi profile, and i feel not very helpful to say you: "Let user repair profile". That is not the way i want to act.
The things is, I doubt it's caused by a broken profile, because I installed Viv 6.7 from scratch, after this I upgraded to 6.8, so basically I reinstalled my extensions, imported my passwords and bookmarks, that's it.
Also, the CPU spikes don't start right away, it always takes some time, like a couple of hours before they start to appear. It's a bit similar to the performance degradation problem which only started after a couple of days.
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@Catweazle said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
I use this extension. Not so complete than an dedicated System Monitor app (Extension only 10KB), but enough to see spikes which are not normal and wich I don't also not experiment. Only in ocassions, most when Windows is preparing an update or things like this.
Yes, I think you already mentioned this, seems like a cool extension, but I think it's better to rely on a third party tool like TinyResMeter, who is probably more reliable.
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@RasheedHolland, for sure, apart of this I've tools to analyze all in the complete way, with graphs, but I use this extension because it permits always having an eye on the activity, it's a good complement tool. If there is a strange behavior you can already open an third party tool or the Task Manager to see what is wrong
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@nisha02, downgrading from 6.8 to 6.1 isn't a good idea, it will break way more than only fixing the problem, even breaking the complete profile.
Since 8 years I never had to downgrade Vivaldi, most issues not even related to Vivldi, but to extensions or extern processes, frequent specially in Windows, which start processes in the background for several reasons, which can cause some strange pikes of the CPU. But to see what is wrong, you need an app or the Task Manager, to see which process is causing it -
@Catweazle said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@nisha02, downgrading from 6.8 to 6.1 isn't a good idea, it will break way more than only fixing the problem, even breaking the complete profile.
Why was nisha02 banned? And correct, downgrading isn't an option with Chromium based browsers sadly enough, but that's why I never upgrade versions that work without any problems like Viv 6.1, I simply install standalone versions of newer versions. If I have problems (like I had with 6.4, 6.7 and 6.8) I simply go back to 6.1, problem solved.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland I can not reproduce your issue on my Intel i5-7400 + NVidia PC, perhaps because i have 16 GB RAM and a fast SSD.
But i agree that older Vivaldi version were faster and less consuming resources.
BTW, I have some good news, I have been using Viv 6.9 for a couple of hours and I'm not seeing any CPU spikes. But I will now have to wait for a few more days, because I remember in 6.8 it started after a while. But so far so good, and to clarify, I didn't do a complete reinstall, I simply upgraded, which would prove that there was some bug in 6.8, at least if this bug doesn't reappear.
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@RasheedHolland said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
BTW, this is the bug report: VB-108672
Will keep you guys posted. If this CPU spiking bug is not fixed, I will have to keep using Vivaldi 6.1, which I'm happy to do, but it's kinda sad.
BTW, can you perhaps check what the status of this bug report is? So far I'm not seeing any CPU spikes, but I will have to monitor a few more days. I just wondered if they closed this bugreport with the ''solved'' status. Because I do believe that Vivaldi's resource/memory managment has become better. Perhaps developers found out that there was indeed some memory leak in 6.7/6.8, and they fixed it.
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@RasheedHolland Still unconfirmed.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland Still unconfirmed.
OK I see, so this means that they couldn't reproduce it, or that they haven't looked into it?
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@RasheedHolland One person from QA Team could not reproduce it in 6.9 and i had same experience.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland One person from QA Team could not reproduce it in 6.9 and i had same experience.
OK cool, so this means that eventhough they could not reproduce, they still might have made changes to memory management, which may have solved the problem for me. I'm currently running Vivaldi 6.9 for about 48 hours (without terminating of course) and I see no CPU spikes, and no major slowdown. But I need to run it for a few more days. Like I said, I can run Vivaldi 6.1 for 7+ days without any problems.
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@RasheedHolland said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
I'm currently running Vivaldi 6.9 for about 48 hours (without terminating of course) and I see no CPU spikes, and no major slowdown. But I need to run it for a few more days. Like I said, I can run Vivaldi 6.1 for 7+ days without any problems.
Yes, we appreciate your long-time tests.
If you can not reproduce your issue with 6.9.3447.37, i will close the bugreport.
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@DoctorG said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
@RasheedHolland said in Weird CPU spikes in Vivaldi 6.8?:
I'm currently running Vivaldi 6.9 for about 48 hours (without terminating of course) and I see no CPU spikes, and no major slowdown. But I need to run it for a few more days. Like I said, I can run Vivaldi 6.1 for 7+ days without any problems.
Yes, we appreciate your long-time tests.
If you can not reproduce your issue with 6.9.3447.37, i will close the bugreport.
I will wait a few more days and report back. So far after 3 days running in memory, I still don't see any CPU spikes and no extreme slowdown. But as said before, with 6.8 it started after a week or so. So it's too early to close the bugreport.
