Supermium 122.0.6261.85 takes too long to open in Windows XP with 4 or more cores

[emanueljoab]

Describe the bug
Supermium 122.0.6261.85 takes too long to load and open new pages in Windows XP if the computer has 4 or more cores.

To Reproduce

1. Install Windows XP x86 on virtual machine and set 4 cores in settings.
2. Install Supermium 122.0.6261.85.
3. Open it.

Expected behavior
The expected behavior would it open without delay but in my testing it takes 20-30 seconds or more if there's 4 cores set on VM. If 2 cores is set, it takes less time to open and load page.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 32-bits
• Supermium 122.0.6261.85

[mserafym]

Describe the bug Supermium 122.0.6261.85 takes too long to load and open new pages in Windows XP if the computer has 4 or more cores.

To Reproduce

1. Install Windows XP x86 on virtual machine and set 4 cores in settings.
2. Install Supermium 122.0.6261.85.
3. Open it.

Expected behavior The expected behavior would it open without delay but in my testing it takes 20-30 seconds or more if there's 4 cores set on VM. If 2 cores is set, it takes less time to open and load page.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 32-bits
• Supermium 122.0.6261.85

Who is the manufacturer of the virtual machine and is the virtual hard disk located on the HDD or SSD?

[JoachimHenze]

@emanueljoab You opened this ticket 26minutes ago, when the version you are citing is not the most recent version anymore.
Therefore I do ask explicitly the question:
Did you test here really
Supermium 122.0.6261.85
or did you test
Supermium 122.0.6261.85 Hotfix (R2)
?

[emanueljoab]

Describe the bug Supermium 122.0.6261.85 takes too long to load and open new pages in Windows XP if the computer has 4 or more cores.
To Reproduce

1. Install Windows XP x86 on virtual machine and set 4 cores in settings.
2. Install Supermium 122.0.6261.85.
3. Open it.

Expected behavior The expected behavior would it open without delay but in my testing it takes 20-30 seconds or more if there's 4 cores set on VM. If 2 cores is set, it takes less time to open and load page.
Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 32-bits
• Supermium 122.0.6261.85

Who is the manufacturer of the virtual machine and is the virtual hard disk located on the HDD or SSD?

VMWare Workstation 17 and SSD.

@emanueljoab You opened this ticket 26minutes ago, when the version you are citing is not the most recent version anymore. Therefore I do ask explicitly the question: Did you test here really Supermium 122.0.6261.85 or did you test Supermium 122.0.6261.85 Hotfix (R2) ?

The version I testes was Supermium 122.0.6261.85 without and with hotfix.

[AlfCraft07]

It actually happens to me with an actual 2-core CPU (AMD Athlon II X2 245) when opening the browser for the first time after boot. Subsequently, it will open up really quickly, until I reboot and try to open it. Tested on both v122 original release and hotfix.

[JoachimHenze]

I can confirm the symptom @AlfCraft07 explained here: 45seconds to start up "Supermium 122.0.6261.85 Hotfix (R2)", but only fractions of a second when starting it up for the 2nd, 3rd, nth time. It's a dual Core laptop Intel C2D T6400 2GHz with 3GB RAM, running on XPSP3.
After next Windows reboot, we are back at 45 seconds for the first run.
This is some bug for sure, this is not just about file-system-caching! There is more about it.

[eXPc023]

Interestingly, that didn't happen on my system (with Xeon E5420 (quad-core)). The startup time is as usual as any Chromium browsers' startup time on an IDE HDD. The version I was running was the first 122 release though.
By the way, this isn't a VM.

[Montclair]

I have the same issue. XP VM quad core with 4GB of RAM. VM is running from physical SATA HDD. Second load is always much faster (possibly due to caching, not sure).

[win32ss]

I am running VMware Workstation 10 and my VMs are on SSDs. I cannot replicate this issue.

As for the initial report, does it also happen only on the first launch or on other ones as well?

And yes, caching and prefetching are undoubtedly speeding up the following browser launches.

[AlfCraft07]

It happens only on first launch, subsequent launches work flawlessly. Until you reboot.

[mserafym]

I am running VMware Workstation 10 and my VMs are on SSDs. I cannot replicate this issue.

As for the initial report, does it also happen only on the first launch or on other ones as well?

And yes, caching and prefetching are undoubtedly speeding up the following browser launches.

I also can't reproduce it, just like win32ss.
It runs just as fast on a VM as on the host.

Suspicion that there are problems associated with the virtualization of a specific CPU of a specific VM. There may also be problems with the video driver for the VM of a specific VM manufacturer, which adds stuttering (fading). Adding up these stutters adds time to startup.

[docrR]

Your report doesn't contain enough information to reproduce this. What virtualization software are you using? What version of the guest drivers? "virtual machine with 4 cores" is just not descriptive enough.

[eXPc023]

People also must take it into account that any Chromium browser will take a bit too long to startup for the first time when launched from mechanical disks, regardless of their speed. Moving program and user data directory to an SSD significantly improved the loading time, resulting in an almost instantaneous startup.

[docrR]

Closing this issue for now, as there is no meaningful info to reproduce this.