pluginserver.ex

[Shlomo Solomon]

Let me say again, if it wasn't clear, that I don't see any real delay in 
Firefox. The problem is high CPU use by this mysterious pluginserver.ex 
process. Killing it manually solves the CPU problem and doesn't seem to 
affect Firefox (but the next time I start Firefox, pluginserver.ex also 
starts again).

The problem is CPU and not memory. I do plan to add more memory (for an 
unrelated reason - Virtualbox is slow and seems to want more), but at the 
moment, Firefox and pluginserver.ex don't cause excessive memory use. In 
fact, there's not even any significant swap activity.

On Wednesday 25 February 2009, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote:
> Good afternoon to you,
> I am beginning to think like WinXP and Vista, Linux needs more RAM
> installed than I thought. I have a Pentium 4  2.4 GHz and 1 GB of RAM. Win
> XP needs 2GB to really run smoothly and Vista needs would you believe a
> whacking 4 GB of RAM.
>
> I too have noticed the delays of Firefox and wonder whether this is the
> latest version playing games here no matter if Linux or Win. I have seen an
> improvement when downloading a new Adobe Flash .rpm
>
> However sometimes there's a few seconds delay or a slight freeze up which
> clears itself and any typing done appears at lightening speed. Could there
> be file in Temp playing games?
>
> Moshe
>
> --- On Tue, 24/2/09, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: pluginserver.ex
> To: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009, 10:09 PM
>
> So far, I don't see any corelation, but I'll try to check this and if
> your
> theory is true, I'll let you know.
>
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Dvir Volk wrote:
> > 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.



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