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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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I usually append /h/ to the URL (/mail/h/) and get a HTML version. It can work even without JS and it has classic design with small rows that works well on my small screen. No Material Design and no huge elements with large offsets.

this does not work for me. when I type "gmail.com" it redirects to: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox where should I put the /h/?

    https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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I have also been noticing this for a while now... there was a hacker news recently about banks and other firms mining behavioral biometric data (cursor freezing, typing speed, phone angle, probably a load of other metrics likehow often you backspace and pause to reflect what you write or rewrite) for authentication purpouses...

Perhaps google is doing this too?

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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Malwarebytes and McAfee cause this. Something to do with updating policies.

Those do cause a lot of problems in general, but this particular issue had a different root cause. He traces it all the way back from the symptoms in the article. Worth a read!

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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Yes

Maybe it is better to disable CFG then. Because now it makes a memory leak.

That was considered (see the discussion in the bug) but the v8 fix will also fix the memory leak, while still retaining the security value in CFG

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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Side note... not related to the same root cause, but related to a similar end user problem... I've been staying in a lot of hotels lately and using a lot of very slow internet connections (not by choice, that's just what is available) and I wish Chrome had some sort of "low bandwidth" mode where it would only allow requests from your current tab, or maybe current window (easily open a new window to control which tabs…

Vivaldi is based on Chrome and adds some poweruser features. For example you can hibernate tabs. In your case, right-click on the tab you want to use, select "hibernate background tabs", done. I think Chrome has a tab hibernation extension you could try as well.

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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I just kind of figured we'd stop having UI lag by now. I work on a 24 core workstation with 64GB of RAM and things lag all the time. Not slow to complete, like jittery key entry and non-responses.

Haven't we figured out thread prioritization by now? Can't we make sure something draws 60 times per second while things are going on in the background? My Android Studio build should be totally isolated from my inbox.

I know this is a bit orthogonal to the article and that I'm certainly not well informed about Operating Systems these days, I'd love to get schooled in the comments.

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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So basically it is the problem with CFG (exploit protection) which is not ready for the cases when there are many allocations and freeing of excutable memory blocks.

Kinda; mainly that NtQueryVirtualMemory was super slow when scanning over CFG, which was bug fixed in the April 2018 Windows 10 update.

It also uncovered a "bug" (performance weakness?) in v8 that they were able to fix so less CFG blocks were allocated.

So kind of a win/win in the end, bugs fixed, world a slightly better place.

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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I usually append /h/ to the URL (/mail/h/) and get a HTML version. It can work even without JS and it has classic design with small rows that works well on my small screen. No Material Design and no huge elements with large offsets.

I hate material design. I don't want more vacant space, I want density. Ive always loved Japanese website layouts. Content is beauty.

do you have any examples or resources on Japanese style web design?

Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

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I need 27 seconds on Firefox 52.9 ESR (Debian) and about 20,287 kbyte of data transferred in 148 requests just to reach an idle GMail tab. What is all this stuff even doing?

I usually append /h/ to the URL (/mail/h/) and get a HTML version. It can work even without JS and it has classic design with small rows that works well on my small screen. No Material Design and no huge elements with large offsets.

I just tried that, and noticed promotions in the inbox, the non-HTML version separated the "primary" from the "promotions". Are they merging them to keep HTML version annoying?
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