Flash CPU usage (was: Re: [plug] Tracking and Fixing Memory Leaks)

Steve Boak sboak at westnet.com.au
Sun Dec 19 14:10:57 WST 2004


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:46 am, harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au wrote:
[...]
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:29:10 +0800 Steve Boak <sboak at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > I don't have a memory problem with Mozilla (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
> > i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5) on kernel 2.4.22 even
> > after up to a week of continuous operation, but I do have a problem with
> > a couple of sites with java which use up 100% of my CPU time on a Via C3
> > 500Mhz processor - the prime example is Westnet's network status
> > scrolling text applet at http://myplace.westnet.com.au/
> >
> > top results while on the above webpage:
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 27032 root      16   0 33496  32m  17m R 77.2  6.6   1:55.57 mozilla-bin
> >  2995 root       9 -10 37168  27m 2632 S 19.4  5.6   7:54.31 XFree86
> > 27120 root      17   0  1084 1084  832 R  4.6  0.2   0:05.95 top
>
> We have seen the same issue with debian testing and firefox on the
> CA distro with the westnet home page as an example.
>
> Many other people have said "Works for me" so I'd be interested in
> figuring this out too. It may be the flash plug-in. What version are
> you using Steve ?
>
> We have:
> libflashplayer.so
> Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81
>
> Does anyone have this version working correctly ?
>
> All the best
> Harry

libflashplayer.so, Shockwave Flash 6.0 r79 for me.

I've moved this discussion off to the Computer Angels discussion list - if 
anyone here is particularly interested, let me know and I'll post the results 
back here.

Steve

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