Thread: Calibre 4: guzzling CPU even when not running
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Old 10-05-2019, 01:55 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Those are browser processes used by the viewer and editor. calibre itself does not use them oonly the viewer and editor do. And they definitely should bnot be persisting. If a reboot does not cler up the problem then it is likely something is interfering withthem, try running in safe mode first.
Thanks. A reboot did get rid of the processes, and I ran Calibre a few times yesterday and the problem didn't occur again. However, it has happened to me again just now - three instances of the same Qtwebengineprocess, each using roughly 16% of my CPU.

Let's see if it happens with anyone else.
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