I am repeatedly observing extremely high CPU usage by the dedicated workers of ChatGPT web app for extensive periods (over 30 min) when left open in the background (as a Chrome tab) but not interacting with it at all. My system has 8 cores 16 GB RAM. [image]

This is after killing the worker process shortly before 15:26 on the plot. [image]

@logankilpatrick Can anyone look at this, please?

I agree with the original posters. I have a laptop and occasionally for whatever reason chatgpt4 (on MS edge) starts using CPU after i interact with it (maybe 10% which is quite high in my opinion). If I kill that particular task then all is good. It bothers me because the fan starts running at the …

had been wondering why my fan is going insane, scan chrome dev tools & GPT is somehow using >100 cpu? it’s so bad scrolling the page intermittently hangs…

Same issue with me the chat window keeps getting hanged and what I have seen is that when I open the chats with large amount of chat history then the memory usage reaches around 2GB. But for other chat windows it is around 100MB. [Screenshot 2023-10-07 at 4.16.05 PM]

Came back to my pc with the fan going full speed and see it’s using 50% of my CPU. Has anyone gotten a response or explanation about this? Seems unethical to use people’s computers to cloud compute without clearly telling them that is what is happening. [image]

Same here, I noticed my Macbook Air M2 lagging like crazy only to find " FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content" consuming massive amounts of CPU and memory resources. Upon investigation, this only happens with ChatGPT windows I’ve had open for some time.

I have the same issue. One core maxed out after some time with no activity. Didn’t notice it until today

Same issue, i was watching youtube and suddenly the fan went crazy, ended the process taking up 50-60% CPU and lo and behold, it was the chat openai com tab.

High CPU Web Workers usage of ChatGPT when not is use

ChatGPT Bugs

urevich55 November 13, 2023, 1:22pm 9

I also noticed too high a load on the processor, it seems that the company uses client PCs to process other tasks, my I core i9 16 gb slows down from the browser does not depend much, can it extract crypto or train a neural network?

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