On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Justin Kremer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Normally, I can have 30 or more tabs open in Firefox and >> the top command will report that Firefox is taking less than >> 2% of the cpu. Sometimes though, I'll run top and Firefox >> is taking more than 25% and so I'll close several of my tabs >> in an effort to find the one or so that are hogging resources. >> Are there any cpu monitoring tools I could configure to pop >> up when a process has taken a given percentage of cpu >> over a certain length of time? Tia. > > I don't know of anything quite like you describe, but could you just > leave a terminal running top in the background for a while? Top uses > very small amounts of resources when left running in Linux. Or you > could make a cron job to run a script that uses ps, searches for > firefox processes and check their CPU usage...and e-mail you or > something if it gets over 20% or so. > Conky or GKrellm might have a pretty GUI to show the same thing. But > beauty is in the eye of the beholder. > Another rather different (and possibly undesirable) option is to > temporarily switch to Chrome or Chromium and see if you still run into > resource issues. If you do, it creates a separate process for each > tab, so you can more easily isolate which tab is misbehaving. A > couple downsides are that you would have to switch browsers and > configure Chrome to your liking, and also Chrome tends to use more > resources than Firefox because of its process isolation...the very > thing that makes it desirable for debugging an issue like this. It > might be worth a shot, though. > - Justin In chromium-browser Memory, CPU Nework and FPS for each Tab. Press Shift-Esc http://malektips.com/google-chrome-memory-usage.html Cool! -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at skerbitz.org