Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)

Posted Jun 30, 2007 11:46 UTC (Sat) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com) by dwmw2
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.

With what SWF file/video it did this? Did you Valgrind/Massif where the
memory went? Did you file a bug about this?

Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 1, 2007 9:54 UTC (Sun) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

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...

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.