Hard disk sound noisy when google chrome is active.

[Muhammad Syawalfiza Lokman]

My hard disk is still new (less than 1 year) but when I run google chrome, a lot of noise coming from my hard disk. To test this problem, I run firefox - and no noise at all and everything run smooth.

also the cpu utilization is high with just 1 tab running (www.google.com) and no background apps running.

[Isiah Meadows]

Could we get any specs such as (especially) OS version and Chrome version? Also, did Chrome work properly before (i.e. no loud hard drive)?

[Tony Gentilcore]

It's possible you are hitting http://crbug.com/52663

Adding a trace to that bug could confirm.

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[Isiah Meadows]

The way this initial post appears, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't know what that is. On the other hand, I've witnessed the same issue (not really loud, but noticeable) on my laptop. Here's the irony: I get it in almost a consistent basis on Windows 7 64-bit SP2, but not Ubuntu GNOME 13.10, and I've yet to hear it in Ubuntu, period (including 13.04+Unity, 13.10+Unity, and 13.04+GNOME). I primarily use Ubuntu at this point because Windows 7 is painfully slow (not trying to start a discussion, but I also need to uninstall a few things), but I will try to remember to get a trace of it on my machine (it is a dual boot).

[Isiah Meadows]

Check my comment on that bug...I'm attaching traces from about:tracing done on Google Chrome on Windows 7 (both beta and canary builds) and Ubuntu 13.10 (just beta).

[Anon Doe]

I think I'm suffering from this. I hear the hard drive in my laptop starting and stopping every few seconds, and chrome processes are using up lots of CPU. (out of the 85 chrome processes visible in the task manager, 10~  of them are using over 5 CPU, 5~ are using over 10), and my CPU usage is at 100%, and my physical memory usage is in the high 90s at all times.

I do have a lot of tabs open at any given moment, and I'm used to the physical memory usage being in the 90s, but the CPU usage being at 100% and the hard drives noises is new.

Unfortunately I don't know what a trace is in this context. Using windows 7, Version 37.0.1994.0 (270640) of chromium.

On Sunday, January 5, 2014 3:39:48 PM UTC-5, Tony Gentilcore wrote:

[Рома Чупин]

maybe there's not enought ram anymore and OS using hdd-cache, try to use task manager to kick pages out of ram (tabs of it will not close), i do it often.

среда, 28 мая 2014 г., 23:46:17 UTC+4 пользователь Anon Doe написал:

[Isiah Meadows]

I forget... Is the flag --enable-traces? I could do that rather easily with a vanilla profile from the command line on Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7, both 64-bit. The vibe I'm getting is that it's a bug specific to x86_64, judging by both personal experience and the linked bug (http://crbug.com/52663).

Also, I would be testing against the beta channel.