Firefox 3 hogging 90% CPU, can anything be done about this?
Hugh Caley
hughc at aldon.com
Tue Apr 14 00:15:26 UTC 2009
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:26:39 -0700
> Hugh Caley wrote:
>
>
>> Problem: After running Firefox for a time (a few minutes to 30 minutes)
>> it will start taking 80%+ of CPU (as shown in top) and will keep taking
>> it until I restart the browser. This machine is running Fedora 10
>> 32-bit. Firefox firefox-3.0.8-1 flash-plugin-10.0.22.87
>>
>
> I actually haven't seen that problem on any of the Fedora and Centos machines
> that I look after. At least, not in quite some time as I don't remember
> anything about it at the moment. (Knock on wood and so on, of course.)
>
>
>> This is usually associated with heavy CPU from npviewer.bin, hence the
>> association with flash and flashplayer.
>>
>
> That does make it sound like a Flash problem.
>
>> There are several open tickets on this and similar problems on Adobe's
>> website:
>>
>> https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/
>>
>
> That's probably the best place to take this issue up; Flash is a closed-source
> program that nobody can fix other than Adobe.
>
>
>> I do definitely get the problem on sites such as youtube; however, I
>> also get the problem on sites that don't have any obvious flash content,
>> and frankly, I'm not sure which ones at this point. Flashblock doesn't
>> seem to catch all of them. Still trying to find out.
>>
>
> You might want to look at using noscript instead of Flashblock. It does what
> Flashblock does, plus more. Perhaps a combination of Flashblock and Flash
> content contributes to or causes the problem. What happens if you uninstall
> Flashblock and install noscript instead? Again, that's what I use and I
> haven't seen that problem so perhaps that's the reason why.
>
> The last Adobe run-away that I had was a rogue acroread process on Centos 5
> that ate up everything to a point that you could barely enter a single
> character on the keyboard any more. When I eventually managed to log into it I
> killed that process and everything returned to normal. But that was acroread,
> not Flash.
>
I've seen posts about people who are able to just kill npviewer.bin and
their browsers go back to normal. However, npviewer.bin isn't always
running when I have that problem.
I'll try noscript, but I'd REALLY like Fedora/RedHat/Mozilla people to
work on the problem. If you look at the adobe site there are quite a
few logged bugs about this sort of thing, and no resolutions. I would
suspect Linux is a lower priority. Some higher-end help would be good!
Hugh
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