webpack-dev-server extremely slow to load on new machine

Question

I've been working on a project from my laptop for the past few months. When webpack compiles my code, reloading the page takes around 1 second.

I've now moved to my desktop, and loading the page takes about 11 seconds in Chrome. I'm using the same version of node, webpack-dev-server and webpack on both machines (windows 10).

Chrome:

Edge:

Blazing fast in Chrome on my other machine:

I've also disabled all the extensions to no avail. I can't find a pattern, but this is not consistent on edge, it would load for the same 11 seconds there as well, but not always. Any ideas how i could address this?

I don’t have anything other than the windows built in stuff — pailhead, Jul 10 '21 at 08:32
I think it has something to do with obtaining the webgl context, and might not be related to webpack — pailhead, Jul 10 '21 at 21:12
Looks like its related to this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1202090&q=context%20hanging&can=2 — pailhead, Jul 10 '21 at 21:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '21 at 21:38

This wasn't related to webpack at all, it just looked weird. The issue seems to have something to do with steam (or steamVR), and there was a bug report for chrome:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1202090#c38

Opening two tabs, and reloading them side by side would not suffer from this 11 second delay. Updating steam seems to have resolved the issue.

webpack-dev-server extremely slow to load on new machine

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