High CPU Usage 27.2.0 / Chrome 124.0.6367.61

[bablolove]

There is a known issue with Chrome 124.0.6367.61 causing high cpu usage and orphaned browsers.

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/269957336/high-cpu-usage-on-windows-with-chrome-124?hl=en

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/chrome-for-testing/issues/126

Google quietly released Chrome Version 124.0.6367.92 which seems to fix this issue - they did not provide any release notes so I think they are avoiding bad press.

As soon as I upgraded to BAS 27.2.0 we noticed the problem with high CPU usage. All you have to do is run some browsers and watch for instances of worker.exe around 12% cpu usage.

For the reason of this bug could you please consider upgrading to support chrome Version 124.0.6367.92?

Thank you very much

[outsider]

@bablolove Good improvement i have also faced this issue recently, the chrome version has high cpu usage with even 3 threads!

[bablolove]

Yes thank you for your confirmation. The way we first found this problem is we run some of our spiders with regular chrome and when it went to 124.0.6367.61 all our servers started crashing with high CPU. Then after a few days BAS 27.2.0 came out supporting chrome 124.0.6367.61 and we had the exact same problem with our BAS spiders.

Then when chrome 124.0.6367.92 all our regular spiders started working again no more crashes however our BAS spiders are still having this issue so I ask please consider release BAS 27.2.1 that is supporting chrome 124.0.6367.92

Thank you very much for your amazing BAS we love you

[bablolove]

Chrome released a new version and so the latest is now Version 124.0.6367.119

[tet-vivi]

Have you tried switching to a specific browser version from the list of available ones? (each release has 2 different versions)

[bablolove]

Thank you I will test this

[m4zuper]

@bablolove @outsider
With a simple test project, no increase in CPU resource consumption can be detected. Please attach the test project. Or describe in as much detail as possible what browser-related actions are used in the project and what sites the projects work with.
Also
Do you use fingerprinting?
Do you use profiles?
Do you use the new inactivity emulation?

[bablolove]

We have been trying to figure this out for a few days and it appears windows antimalware executable could be the problem. The way we resolve this is we added worker.exe and FastExecuteScript.exe and node.exe to the windows antivirus exceptions list and it appears this makes the problem almost go away.

Yes we use fingerprints
No we do not use profiles
No inactivity emulation

It's worth noting that we do not use BAS rather we use puppeteer-with-fingerprints directly as a libriary

I will note that we only saw this problem start with 27.2.0 and 1 week prior we saw the exact same issue on our non-bablosoft scrapers that use chrome directly and it started with chrome 124

Thank you for your great system.