OK, I just figured out what the problem is. It's the related Products that' causing the issue. Because it's pulling back all the products at one time. If you go add AllowPaging="True" on the gvRelatedProducts gridview, it fixes the problem.
This also needs to be done on the productlist gridviews for the categorydetails.aspx and the manufacturersdetail.aspx pages.
High CPU in Product Administration
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- 8/20/2009
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The reason for the high CPU is do to the massive amount of ASP.NET controls being used. The page side (since it's a giant list) becomes massive and thus forces the browser to render that entire HTML. I ran into a similar situation on my store site that has over 2700 products. As a result, the page sizes were in the MB's just in HTML alone and sometimes would just crash the browser viewing such a page. If viewstates are enabled this also balloons the page even further. I was forced to re-write about 80% of the admin site from scratch due to the very poor forethought given to the impact of using such controls and checkbox lists. I eventually changed most of the controls to use custom Ajax lists and removed almost all of the post-backs associated with ASP.NET controls. It runs like a dream now. It's a shame that I had to do this as it took me several months to re-do everything, which defeated the whole purpose of using a canned solution. Go figure... I got what I paid for.