Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 at 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello, fellow Debianists:
>
> As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole
> lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the
> case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume it's
> actually 'container', but the column's too small for the last letter)
> using anything from 15-20 %CPU, and so I'm thinking it's the culprit.
> I could just kill it and see what else breaks :) But does anyone know
> who or what owns it, or how I can find out?
It's an Iceweasel thing. Do a search on 'firefox' and 'plugin-container'.
It's behaviour may be controlled from about:config.
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