Internet and High CPU Usage

[godreborn]

I can't quite find an answer to this, but the internet on my laptop is running pretty slow. I noticed that the cpu was running at 100% and the internet, whether firefox or chrome, was responsible for a large part of that. my gpu's drivers are up-to-date. also, I tried some of the troubleshooting tips for firefox until I realized chrome was doing the same thing. does anyone have any suggestions? the laptop is only a few months old.

 

[migles]

maybe you got a criptocurrency miner in there without your knowledge ;O;

are the specs recent? or is it a shitty atom\celerom?

 

[godreborn]

I chose a low to mid range laptop since I couldn't afford anything above $700. is there a way to check if I have that miner on my pc?

 

[sarkwalvein]

I would suggest you find the source reason for it, via classical trial and error. I mean, just change possible factors and see how it affects the performance. It could be many things.

Not so long ago I had a similar behavior to what you describe, and it ended up being a faulty hard drive that was reading and writing slowly due to automatic error correction and sector remapping, and it made Chrome and Internet go slow as fuck, probably because of cache and swapping (no idea, but the cause was the hard drive).

 

[ThoD]

Most probably either a coinhive miner (or something similar) or a leakage... Try to see if it's the first thing, if it's not, then consider doing a format (because fixing CPU leakages is an enormous pain and format solves them about 20 times faster). For the miner, just use an advanced Anti-Virus (eg: AVG Pro).

 

[godreborn]

I have panda av - would that work? I haven't run it in a while.

 

[CallmeBerto]

Reboot and see if the problem comes back.

If so run mcafee or malwarebytes.

If neither find anything you could reformat your system.

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I have panda av - would that work? I haven't run it in a while.

Never heard of it. Make sure it is up to date and let it run.

 

[godreborn]

alright. I'm running an hdd scan, then I'll run malwarebytes.

 

[cots]

alright. I'm running an hdd scan, then I'll run malwarebytes.

Does the slowdown effect anything else? Like, when playing MP3 does it skip in the music?

 

[ThoD]

Never heard of it. Make sure it is up to date and let it run.

Panda is pretty well known you know, about at the same level as Norton...

 

[godreborn]

Does the slowdown effect anything else? Like, when playing MP3 does it skip in the music?

I've not noticed it affecting anything else. I'm not sure if having six hdds plugged into the computer would affect it. I wouldn't have so many if not for backups.

 

[nero99]

Tell us the specs of the laptop. Cpu type, amount of ram, hard drive size, brand of laptop

 

[godreborn]

8GBs ram, 1TB hdd, Dell laptop, windows 10

I would think that something as basic as surfing the internet wouldn't be affected like this.

 

[nero99]

8GBs ram, 1TB hdd, Dell laptop, windows 10

I would think that something as basic as surfing the internet wouldn't be affected like this.

Is it a i5 or i7 dual core or quad core cpu? Or one of those amd apu systems? You can check that by opening task manager. If it's a dual core with out hyper threading, chrome will use up both cores pretty fast.

 

[godreborn]

amd a9-9400 radeon r5

 

[nero99]

amd a9-9400 radeon r5

Well one, you over paid for inferior tech. Two, try updating chrome and fore fox to the latest updates. If that doesn't work, that apu is just trash.

 

[Originality]

You can also consider uninstalling your browsers and reinstalling them. Also check for extensions/plugins you don’t recognise.

Also it’d help if you knew exactly which processes was using up most of your CPU (using Performance Monitor).

 

[ThoD]

You can also consider uninstalling your browsers and reinstalling them. Also check for extensions/plugins you don’t recognise.

Also it’d help if you knew exactly which processes was using up most of your CPU (using Performance Monitor).

Not that you mention it, it could just be a faulty shared plugin or extension... Uninstalling everything and reinstalling should fix it.