Chrome using more than 100% CPU on YouTube?

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  1. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
  2. Add the following line:

    options drm_kms_helper poll=N

  3. Restart and problems are gone (at least for me with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Rafael Telles
    Rafael Telles almost 2 years

    I'am new to Ubuntu and I'am trying the 14.04 LTS version.

    When I am seeing any video on Chrome, my computer suddenly gets real slow, so I opened Chrome's task manager...

    Task manager 1

    Task manager 2

    Why is this happening?

    EDIT: I am using the HTML5 player

    EDIT 2: lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' output:

    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 181b
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    --
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M] (rev ff)
    08:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229    PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1818
    
    • Pilot6
      Pilot6 almost 9 years
      Please edit your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' terminal command.
    • Pilot6
      Pilot6 almost 9 years
      I updated my answer.
  • Jekis
    Jekis about 7 years
    Have the same issue as described in answer, but this doesn't fix the issue :( I'm on ubuntu 16.04