Chrome bogs system when streaming audio

kep55

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I'll listen to various online services - radio stations, Amazon, Pandora, etc. - over a 100-200Mbps connection. When using Chrome, v67 I believe, my whole system bogs down. I used the Microsoft salute and saw Chrome was running 6 or 7 processes, ranging in size from a couple thousand KB to to several hundred thousand. Even if I set the affinity for the processes to just one virtual CPU / core, my system is still bog slow. And if I try to switch to Chrome, whether or not anything else is running, I might as well run down to McDeaths for a cup of mud while waiting. My unit has 8GB ram.
Is this normal behaviour?