GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346671
When a download length is unknown, the CPU gets hammered
Last modified: 2006-08-05 01:14:34 UTC
When downloading a file of unknown length (i.e. from video.google.com), the CPU usage (from top) increases massively for epiphany (and also xorg). To reproduce: Go to video.google.com, select a fairly long video clip (~ 3 minutes will show it well) and choose to download it. Feel the computer grind to a halt. Closing the relevant tab doesn't help. Neither does changing to a different virtual desktop. For downloads of known length, downloading works as expected. Using Ubuntu Dapper (with accessibility enabled. Not sure if that makes a difference) and can reproduce it here.
Confirming. Theoretically this shouldn't happen since the MozDownload code limits the update rate...
The code limiting the update rate was missing a check in case of a file with an unknown size. Fixed on both HEAD and gnome-2.14 branch. Thx for the bug report !
*** Bug 136075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***