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Re: browsers have become memory hogs



On Thursday 10 April 2008 23:37:03 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/10/08 16:14, andy wrote:
> > Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> >> On Thursday 10 April 2008 21:45:32 Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> On 04/10/08 14:35, tom arnall wrote:
> >>>> all of a sudden browsers have become memory hogs on my system (>95%).
> >>>> i've
> >>>
> >>> I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit
>
> What's npviewer?
>
>
> --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>
> We want... a Shrubbery!!


Something that came with flashplayer-mozilla, I believe. In any case, if I 
remove flashplayer, that npviewer.bin does not come up if I am with iceweasel 
on pages that have some macromedia staff in them. Here a past of top:
Tasks: 124 total,   1 running, 123 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.4%us,  1.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 82.0%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4058500k total,   943724k used,  3114776k free,    30348k buffers
Swap: 12173304k total,        0k used, 12173304k free,   294172k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4817 thierry   20   0 84868  30m 7172 S   32  0.8   0:13.57 npviewer.bin
 3456 root      20   0  122m  47m 7708 S    2  1.2   2:21.57 Xorg

and now then same web page, but I deinstall flashplayer:

Cpu(s):  0.5%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4058500k total,   960940k used,  3097560k free,    33280k buffers
Swap: 12173304k total,        0k used, 12173304k free,   324024k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4994 thierry   20   0 18896 1268  940 R    1  0.0   0:00.18 top
    1 root      20   0 10248  756  628 S    0  0.0   0:00.72 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

Thierry
Thierry


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