Windows and Chrome
Jul. 26th, 2013 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardMaybe it is specific only for my laptop (I have not tried on other systems), but here is a way to freeze Windows 7 64 bits for a minute or two, and unfreeze again:
Open the Chrome web browser, load a couple of tabs. Work as usual for several days, opening more tabs every day. Using "sleep" and "hibernate" would not hurt.
Now try to close the rightmost tab. It closes instantly. Now switch to the leftmost tab. Press Ctrl-W to close it. Windows will freeze for a minute or so. The empirical formula that works on my laptop is
freeze length in seconds = 10 seconds * number of days the tab was opened.
During the freeze, nothing works. For example, you may press Ctr-Alt-Del, and it will only work once the system is back in a responsive state.
I guess this happens because every chrome tab is a separate process. When this process is swapped out to SSD, killing it and freeing resources takes time and some system wide windows kernel mutex :)
Open the Chrome web browser, load a couple of tabs. Work as usual for several days, opening more tabs every day. Using "sleep" and "hibernate" would not hurt.
Now try to close the rightmost tab. It closes instantly. Now switch to the leftmost tab. Press Ctrl-W to close it. Windows will freeze for a minute or so. The empirical formula that works on my laptop is
freeze length in seconds = 10 seconds * number of days the tab was opened.
During the freeze, nothing works. For example, you may press Ctr-Alt-Del, and it will only work once the system is back in a responsive state.
I guess this happens because every chrome tab is a separate process. When this process is swapped out to SSD, killing it and freeing resources takes time and some system wide windows kernel mutex :)
