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Re:Speed Is the Killer Feature by hnuser123456 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:36PM (#26317889)
Opened Chrome, opened gmail and youtube, nonstop 25% CPU usage, fans ramped to 4000+RPM, closed chrome, 3% with Firefox with some simple tabs. The culprit seems to be chrome's "software_reporter_tool.exe". It has chewed up 3 minutes of CPU and counting. It seems to have some well-multithreaded elements, it's added 12 seconds of CPU time in 1 second occasionally.
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Re:Speed Is the Killer Feature by JTbane on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:17PM (#26319183)
That's Chrome scanning your computer for malware like toolbars and such.
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