Bug#1012227: webkitgtk: CPU usage

[Alberto Garcia]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 03:59:33PM -0500, Tim McConnell wrote:

> running sudo ps -aux |grep WebKitWebProcess
> tmick    4071296 53.0  9.5 88411428 683212 ?     RLl  15:38   8:13
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess 13 35
> tmick    4073180  0.0  0.0   6432  2284 pts/1    T    15:52   0:00 grep
> WebKitWebProcess
> tmick    4073195  0.0  0.0   6432  2284 pts/1    S+   15:54   0:00 grep
> WebKitWebProcess
> 
> And stays there until I shutdown everything that uses it. Evolution, TOR,
> Firefox and reboot. It's like I'm running Windows 3.11 again.

Can you please try this?

- Run webkit and identify the PID that is using most of the CPU (using
  top or any similar tool)

- As root run "perf top -pPID --sort dso,symbol"

This will give you the shared libraries and symbols that are eating
the CPU.

Thanks,

Berto