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Safari 4 and processor usage

vansouza

vansouza

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Mar 28, 2006
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Right now my processors are pinned at 99 and 100% and a look at Activity Monitor shows 6 processes, relating to my safari boot page.. you know with the small web shot pages... Strange thing is that the temp and fans are not going up... The processes are called Safari Webpage Preview.. Its been running for about 6 min so far... wondering?
 
I'm guessing that each Preview process is calling Webkit to render the page and display it in that interface.

One of them (or more) probably experienced a problem with the page that froze the process, causing it to run at 100%. Just quit Safari and/or restart.
 
crazzyeddie said:
I'm guessing that each Preview process is calling Webkit to render the page and display it in that interface.

One of them (or more) probably experienced a problem with the page that froze the process, causing it to run at 100%. Just quit Safari and/or restart.
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Thanks for your help but quitting Safari does not help... only rebooting solves the issue... which is a bit of a bother.
 
vansouza said:
Is anyone else having this issue?
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I get it sometimes in Safari 3.x

Between 150% and 300% cpu usage until I close the window (if possible) or quit the app. I have no idea why. It happens about once in ever 100 hours of use. I can go back to the same page right after restarting Safari and it's fine. Weird.

Sometimes it does it for a much shorter time (about 1min.) and then asks me if it's OK to open some font on a non-system drive partition. <shrug>
 
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