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Whenever I use Google+ Hangouts I get extremely high CPU usage (generally 100% on all cores). There are some other threads on SU that have this problem, but they generally have rather low nd systems. I have a Thinkpad T420 with a i7-2640M CPU. This certainly isn't a low end machine. When I reduce the size of the Hangouts window, things get a little better, but I'm still generally at >90% CPU usage.
I'm running Arch Linux.
This generally makes it so that video calls are choppy both in video and in audio, and other apps on the system are mostly unusable due to resource starvation. I think a similar problem also affects the commercial video conference software called Vidyo. I mention this because I know that the Hangouts uses the same codecs and protocols as Vidyo, so it may be related.
Mike Cooper
Posted 2014-05-10T23:27:10.293
Reputation: 2 036
1What have you done to troubleshoot the problem? Have you tried rebooting the system? Have you tried disabling everything unnecessary and then adding them back in until the problem occurs? Or killing off processes to see if that helps? – mdpc – 2014-05-10T23:45:51.600
What you have certainly is a low-end machine compared to current products. The problem is indeed your cpu. – Ramhound – 2014-05-11T00:05:25.213