Michael F. Stemper
2020-10-29 20:18:37 UTC
An organization to which I belong has been having its meetings via
WebEx since mid-summer.
When this started, the other members said "Mike, you'll need to use
something other than Linux, because WebEx has really poor WebEx
support." There are two other Linux users; one of whom also has a
Windows machine that he uses for these meetings, the other of whom
uses a Windows VM.
I have indeed experienced serious problems. After a half hour or
forty-five minutes, my CPU utilization (as reported by top) will
climb to 150%, then 180%, and then my browswer window will hang
up. I eventually am able to close that window and rejoin the
meeting, only to have the same issue crop up again after ten or
fifteen minutes. (Memory usage seems not to be a problem.)
Since multiple folks were predicting this, I assumed that it was a
common problem. But I've spent some quality time searching for
"WebEx performance problems on Ubuntu" (and related strings)
without any relevant information appearing.
Are people around here doing WebEx on Ubuntu without issues, or have
others found this to be problematic? If it's widespread, I would
have thought that there'd be searchable discussion of the issue.
I'm running FF 82.0 over 16.04 LTS. From the paucity of information
that I uncovered, I learned that the H.264 codec is useful/needed.
I have it. Any other ideas?
It's possible that my hardware isn't up to snuff, but I don't know
enough about hardware to know what to look for.
If I can fix this by putting another (or different) card into one
of my laptops, that'd be fine. Or, if I need to get a new laptop,
I'm fine with that as well. As long as I know how to spec one out
so that this is no longer an issue.
If it would help, I could post lshw output, but this post is kind
of long already.
My profound thanks for any help that you can give.
WebEx since mid-summer.
When this started, the other members said "Mike, you'll need to use
something other than Linux, because WebEx has really poor WebEx
support." There are two other Linux users; one of whom also has a
Windows machine that he uses for these meetings, the other of whom
uses a Windows VM.
I have indeed experienced serious problems. After a half hour or
forty-five minutes, my CPU utilization (as reported by top) will
climb to 150%, then 180%, and then my browswer window will hang
up. I eventually am able to close that window and rejoin the
meeting, only to have the same issue crop up again after ten or
fifteen minutes. (Memory usage seems not to be a problem.)
Since multiple folks were predicting this, I assumed that it was a
common problem. But I've spent some quality time searching for
"WebEx performance problems on Ubuntu" (and related strings)
without any relevant information appearing.
Are people around here doing WebEx on Ubuntu without issues, or have
others found this to be problematic? If it's widespread, I would
have thought that there'd be searchable discussion of the issue.
I'm running FF 82.0 over 16.04 LTS. From the paucity of information
that I uncovered, I learned that the H.264 codec is useful/needed.
I have it. Any other ideas?
It's possible that my hardware isn't up to snuff, but I don't know
enough about hardware to know what to look for.
If I can fix this by putting another (or different) card into one
of my laptops, that'd be fine. Or, if I need to get a new laptop,
I'm fine with that as well. As long as I know how to spec one out
so that this is no longer an issue.
If it would help, I could post lshw output, but this post is kind
of long already.
My profound thanks for any help that you can give.
--
Michael F. Stemper
There's no "me" in "team". There's no "us" in "team", either.
Michael F. Stemper
There's no "me" in "team". There's no "us" in "team", either.