100% CPU, 2GB RAM used by chess.com tab?

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SomeDayKing

ONE chess.com chrome tab reports 2GB RAM and 200% (!) CPU utilization on a an i9 CPU. If people are saying this is the fault of ads, that means chess.com lets advertisers run unverified javascript. What?!? Just what I need. It's one thing to have ads displayed. It's another to turn my browser over for mining bitcoin. I can't even limit the CPU on the tab, because chess.com doesn't sandbox the damn ads.

This behavior is repeatable and unusable. I'll check back in a month and see if you've fixed the problem. Fix the problem or no one will see any of your ads, because all your ad-viewing visitors will be gone.

notmtwain
SomeDayKing wrote:

ONE chess.com chrome tab reports 2GB RAM and 200% (!) CPU utilization on a an i9 CPU. If people are saying this is the fault of ads, that means chess.com lets advertisers run unverified javascript. What?!? Just what I need. It's one thing to have ads displayed. It's another to turn my browser over for mining bitcoin. I can't even limit the CPU on the tab, because chess.com doesn't sandbox the damn ads.

This behavior is repeatable and unusable. I'll check back in a month and see if you've fixed the problem. Fix the problem or no one will see any of your ads, because all your ad-viewing visitors will be gone.

Well, the thing is that your i9 probably has 8 or more cores and the % utilization is in relation to one core.

And you probably have a lot more than 2GB  of ram, perhaps as much as 128GB.

 

Martin_Stahl
SomeDayKing wrote:

ONE chess.com chrome tab reports 2GB RAM and 200% (!) CPU utilization on a an i9 CPU. If people are saying this is the fault of ads, that means chess.com lets advertisers run unverified javascript. What?!? Just what I need. It's one thing to have ads displayed. It's another to turn my browser over for mining bitcoin. I can't even limit the CPU on the tab, because chess.com doesn't sandbox the damn ads.

This behavior is repeatable and unusable. I'll check back in a month and see if you've fixed the problem. Fix the problem or no one will see any of your ads, because all your ad-viewing visitors will be gone.

 

Chess.com uses a third-party ad provider. While the site can limit ads and remove bad actors, they don't authorize or pre-screen them to my knowledge.


I you see particular ads misbehaving, you can always report the specific ones;

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/reward-earn-diamond-membership-by-finding-and-reporting-bad-ads