High CPU usage when doing barely anything
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I can also confirm this issue. It starts ok and after couple of hours of using Atlassian Jira and Gitlab I start to have massive CPU usage. To the point of bare html pages scroll is freezing...
I have turned off the calendar feature I was using CalDAV, I will report if the issue persisted.
But this should be looked upon. As I have my own CalDAV server I would like to use.
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I have the same issue of high CPU usage, even with no web page loaded, just the "About Version" tab open. Because of this my CPU fan runs permanently while Vivaldi is running.
Vivaldi: 6.2.3105.48 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit)
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@Trustable
Hi, some user report what @flankymanga mention, a calendar/mail can cause this.
Disable it for a test, remove and add a calendar can solve this.
Check also the Vivaldi task manager, Shift+Esc open it.
On my system Vivaldi takes less than the system monitor tool, exactly 0% idle with mail and calendar.
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@mib2berlin Thanks! Disabling "Mail, Calendar and Feeds" solves it for me. Since I don't use those features I will let it disabled.
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6.2.3105.48 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit), on Ubuntu 22.04.3, fresh install, Profile upgraded from 4.3.2439
With only calendar used, I get two Vivaldi processes loading 60..80 percent of a core.
Disabling "Mail, Calendar and Feeds" gets it to around zero (with a short spike about once a minute).I checked: by enabling the calendar (I don't use Mail or Feeds on this install), the electricity meter goes up 31 watts. That's nuts.
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@pointed-stick
Hi, remove the calendar and add it again should solve this, many user report this.
No idea why this happens for some users, I have 12 Vivaldi installations and none shows this behavior with email and/or calendar.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Well, that did nothing...
First of all, "Export Calendar" does not work. At all. Nothing happens.
(I've restarted Vivaldi after every step, btw)
Deleting the calendar (local) did nothing.
Deleting the account (local) did nothing.
Adding a new account and calendar did nothing.
Repeating everything did nothing.
Same exact load. All the time.
Disabling "Mail, Calendar and Feeds" again brought it back to zero.So, I'm back where I started, sans my calendar events. Thanks.
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@mib2berlin How many of your 12 Vivaldi installations actually use the calendar?
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@pointed-stick
Hi, not all of them use the calendar but all use calendar or mail on Windows and Linux.
I use Gmail and Vivaldi calendars, sometimes both sometimes only one for testing.
You have no calendar account added and CPU usage is high but if you disable "Mail, Calendar and Feeds" it goes down?
Makes no sense to me but maybe other user or a mail developer can clear that up.
I can try to poke a mail developer at Monday, they read only the Mail and Calendar section.
We have some reports in the bug tracker about high CPU usage but no tester or developer could ever reproduce it.
I had such an issues some time ago with adding a feed, removing and adding again solve it.
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@pointed-stick
Hi again, can you try this in a new profile?https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/user-profiles/
3 installs with mail, calendar and feeds:
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I tried an empty profile: load goes to zero, as soon as the window with the main profile is closed. Load does not go up, when Mail and Calendar is enabled in the empty profile.
So, it's a problem with my profile.
Well, I was planning to move from Liferea to Vivaldi Feedreader and from Opera 12 to Vivaldi Mail.
Instead, I'll be looking for a suitable (and hopefully stable) calendar software to replace Vivaldi Calendar with (which I was very slowly warming up to)...
Any suggestions?
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@pointed-stick
Aha, it depends on your setup but I get a new profile up and running in a few minutes with the sync feature.
I reset my profile several times over the years, that is maybe the reason I never have issues in Vivaldi.
Fine tuning take some time and you can copy data not synced manually.
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I guess, there is still no feature to "sync" (or backup) to a local space?
It would have been nice, if the "Export Calendar" had done anything before I deleted it...
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@pointed-stick
No but your personal data are really save and encrypted on the Vivaldi server.
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@mib2berlin
You can do all that manually but you don´t know which files are corrupted.
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As it turns out, "Export Calendar" works in Vivaldi 4.3, so that's a regression.
I imported the .ics back into the calendar. No change. Same load.
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@pointed-stick
Hi, I test the export/import in Vivaldi 6.2.3105.48 and it work as expected.
I export in one profile and import in another.
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Local, yes. Nothing happens, when I click "Export".
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@pointed-stick
Hm, I export a vivaldi.net calendar and a local calendar:
Appears, tested on Linux and Windows 11.
Do you select the calendar in the settings?
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Yes, I did select the calendar before trying to export it.
I tried something else: I started Vivaldi from a terminal, with no arguments. This is what it said during startup:
[30113:30113:0918/192838.685217:ERROR:chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(163)] Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. [30113:30146:0918/192838.914032:ERROR:nss_util.cc(357)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018 Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) [30113:30113:0918/192840.442768:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught (in promise) Error: Source filter not found ["Feeds",""]", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/background-common-bundle.js (1)Then, when I tried to export the calendar, this was the result:
[30113:30113:0918/192853.327287:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "%c[CALENDAR - export]%c font-weight:bold font-weight:normal Error opening filepicker [object DOMException]", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/bundle.js (1)
