pluginserver.ex

[Dvir Volk]

is the CPU consumption related to the sites you are browsing? i.e.
skyrockets when browsing ynet, goes down to about 0% when browsing
just about:blank?
if it's the flash player's host process, that's what i'd expect.
on fedora i have a host process called "npviewer.bin" that behaves as
you described and eats CPU on flash intensive sites.


2009/2/24 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>:
> Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
> In the latest update of my Mandriva 2008.1 box, I moved from Firefox
> 2.0.0.16
> to 3.0.6. Everything seems OK, but I noticed that when I run Firefox, an
> additional process starts - plugserver.ex. This process is a VERY heavy CPU
> user and I don't know what it is or where it comes from (although I Googled
> and didn't find anything). Killing the process doesn't seem to do any damage
> (firefox still runs), but the next time I start Firefox, the pluginserver.ex
> process is back.
>
> Has anyone else seen this and/or know what it's all about?
>
>
>
> I have a guess. Is your system 64 bits?
>
> This may be a helper process that is meant to allow you to run 32 bit
> plugins (such as Adobe Flash). No idea why it takes so much CPU, or why it
> is at all running when no plugins are installed.
>
> Shachar
>
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