I'm using Reactjs to create a dashboard site that has about 15 different data grids that update every 500ms via websockets with a large amount of data virtualized per grid (7k records). Performance seems great on multiple lower / higher end machines (tested 5 different pc's and 1 mac) and the app also performs well in firefox safari and Edge.
My concern is that when I open Chrome's task manager it says CPU usage is anywhere from 50 to 120; however, if I look at the windows task manager, CPU usage for chrome is only at 4-5%. It would seem that the values in the chrome task manager don't correlate to the Windows Task Manager.
On chromes dev site at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/processes/ it says "The most recent measurement of the process’s CPU usage, expressed as the percentage of a single CPU core used in total, by all of the process’s threads. This gives a value from zero to CpuInfo.numOfProcessors*100, which can exceed 100% in multi-threaded processes. Only available when receiving the object as part of a callback from onUpdated or onUpdatedWithMemory."
Do I need to worry if chrome says my reactjs app is 50-120 CPU? What is it exactly that the chrome task manager measures in regards to CPU usage and how are these values calculated, I don't understand the above linked text? Is there a better way to measure true CPU usage of my reactjs app?
Thank you.
If you have 8 cores then the max CPU in Chrome is 800%, whereas in Windows it would be 100%. So a full consumed CPU core would be 100% in Chrome and 100%/8 = 12.5% in Task Manager.
50 % cpu in Chrome would then equal 6.25% CPU in Task Explorer, so it might add up fine.
Having a single CPU core running at 50-100% cpu means you are doing crazy amounts of work. Which might be fine. But mobile users, including ones using a laptop on the go, will hate you for killing their battery.