Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 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?
Yes, as Brian says is the wrapper for mozilla based plugins:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/What%20is%20plugin-container
Killing firefox/icewasel should stop it or just exiting from a web page
that loads the flash player plugin should also reduce the amount of cpu
cycles that uses.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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