Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)
Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)
Posted Jun 24, 2007 1:41 UTC (Sun) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063)In reply to: Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com) by jwb
Parent article: Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)
Unfortunately it needs to stop eating CPU and memory before people can really start testing it and leaving it enabled. I tried it, and was shocked to see it vying with Evolution to see which could claim the largest virtual memory size -- Evolution won, with over half a gigabyte, but gnash wasn't far behind. I removed it again.
When it no longer hurts I'll keep it installed.
Posted Jun 30, 2007 11:46 UTC (Sat)
by oak (guest, #2786)
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With what SWF file/video it did this? Did you Valgrind/Massif where the
Posted Jul 1, 2007 9:54 UTC (Sun)
by njs (subscriber, #40338)
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It's not really clear where one would start debugging. I guess putting the URL into argv[1] so it was visible in ps might help.
> Unfortunately it needs to stop eating CPU and memory before people can Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)
really start testing it and leaving it enabled.
memory went? Did you file a bug about this?
I see the same thing -- mostly it manifests as "I notice my computer seems weirdly slow, and then discover it's because I have a bunch of gnash processes chewing up resources". So all I know is that it was spawned by some web page that I visited recently, that had a plugin buried in it somewhere, and no guarantee that the web page is still around, or that I ever scrolled down far enough into it that the plugin was even visible on my screen, even assuming I would notice the little black box it made...Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)