High CPU usage while others are typing (identical to #16329)
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 9.2k
- Forks
- 1.3k
- Avg merge
- 12h 58m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 56
Description
Identical issue to https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/16329 .
The whole computer becomes unusably slow when someone else is typing in an open chat window.
I am also on arch.
$ keybase --version
keybase version 5.0.0
$ pacman -Qs keybase
local/kbfs 5.0.0-1
The Keybase filesystem
local/keybase 5.0.0-1
CLI tool for GPG with keybase.io
local/keybase-gui 5.0.0-1
GUI frontend for GPG with keybase.io
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issue #16329 and comparing its diagnosis with this report; reproduce the typing scenario on Arch using the listed Keybase 5.0.0 packages. Done means identifying and fixing the excessive CPU use and confirming the chat remains responsive under the same workload.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- arch-linux
- Domain
- desktop, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 18/100