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Browser measurements 7 min read

A CPU quota does not change Chromium 153's processor count

A two-CPU quota left Chromium reporting fourteen processors. Restricting affinity changed the count to two. Nine sessions show why throughput needs its own measurement.

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Does a CPU time quota change Chromium 153 reported processor availability in the same way as a CPU affinity restriction?

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Reported processors, Chromium 153 with a two-CPU time quota 14
Reported processors, same binary restricted to CPUs 0 and 1 2
2026

Whose round trip did you measure?

A packet experiment separates a terminating proxy’s TCP handshake from the browser’s application response, with a direct-client counterexample.

Network measurementsEngineering 7 min read
0.009875 ms Median origin SYN→ACK, relay waits 150 ms each way
306.497 ms Median application echo, relay waits 150 ms each way

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