Bug 496983 - gnash in firefox high CPU
Summary: gnash in firefox high CPU
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnash
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hicham HAOUARI
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.p...
Whiteboard:
: 666672 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-21 22:16 UTC by Flóki Pálsson
Modified: 2011-03-28 10:24 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-01-30 13:17:40 UTC
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Description Flóki Pálsson 2009-04-21 22:16:22 UTC
Description of problem:
gnash in firefox consumes high CPU if swfdec is missing.
In http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/ cpu is 100 %.
in http://media.ffii.org/animation/How%20software%20patents%20work.ogg
cpu about 87 %,  if the site is open in more than four taps cpu goes uppt 100 % and firefox crashes. 

IF swfdec is innstalle then cpu is more resonable. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnash.x86_64 0.8.5-3.fc11
gnash-plugin.x86_64 0.8.5-3.fc11

swfdec.x86_64 0.9.2-2.fc11
swfdec-gtk.x86_64 0.9.2-2.fc11
swfdec-mozilla.x86_64 0.9.2-2.fc11

firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
open System Monitor 
open in firefox How%20software%20patents%20work
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
high cpu

Expected results:
reasonable cpu as when swfdec is innstalled.  

Additional info:
when swfdec is installed then cpu is much lower.
wait a little time for patents window, if is opened in many windows firefox crashes.

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2009-04-22 12:00:16 UTC
swfdec is a different alternative to gnash, most likely you're getting swfdec when both are installed.

Comment 2 Flóki Pálsson 2009-04-22 17:48:02 UTC
This is also in F10 ( was  fully updated ).

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2009-04-23 00:25:50 UTC
I think it's really a general Gnash issue, not related to the distribution at all.

(Also note that installing swfdec isn't a fix for gnash, it's installing a completely different Flash player.)

You should probably file this upstream.

> http://media.ffii.org/animation/How%20software%20patents%20work.ogg
This is an Ogg Theora video, not Flash at all, I don't see how this one is related to Gnash.
On the other hand, http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/ does look like a valid testcase.

Comment 4 Flóki Pálsson 2009-04-23 12:46:49 UTC
>You should probably file this upstream.
see
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26307

Comment 5 Flóki Pálsson 2009-06-01 17:40:47 UTC
the one in #4 was in a wrog place
se
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26718

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:21:45 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 7 RJ 2009-12-04 08:16:03 UTC
I can confirm this one for Fedora 12 and gnash 0.9-20090809 (http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/ cpu is 100 %.)

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:52:00 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:09:30 UTC
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Comment 10 Massimiliano 2010-12-28 18:02:06 UTC
The same problem in Fedora 14:

gnash-0.8.8-4.fc14.x86_64
gnash-plugin-0.8.8-4.fc14.x86_64

The bug in #5 is still open. Also Ubuntu seems to have the same problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnash/+bug/91910

Comment 11 Kevin Kofler 2011-01-02 14:28:32 UTC
*** Bug 666672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 udo 2011-01-02 15:19:24 UTC
Please vote for the gnash bug as mentioned in comment 5, see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26718 and log in to vote.
This may help attract attention to get it fixed.

Comment 13 udo 2011-01-03 17:44:16 UTC
Is gnash uses much CPU cycles, why does it even display ads? I mean: with flash-plugin from adobe and adblock etc I had no flash ads.
But with an open source solution I do see ads!?
I mean: we don't want to see ads overlaying our video. SO please do not waste cycles at them, or at least make that a documented, configurable option.
Thanks.

Comment 14 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-01-29 22:03:50 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 15 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-01-29 22:04:51 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 16 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-01-30 13:17:40 UTC
High CPU is due to no hwaccel with the agg renderer which is default. There is XV accel which is badly broken, vaapi which works with intel/nvidia cards AFAIK.

There is nothing we can do about that in downstream fedora, so I am closing this as upstream.

Comment 17 udo 2011-01-30 13:37:01 UTC
If you can ship a product that can bring a box to grinding halt by just using it in a normal way AND sit back and sigh the 'upstream' mantra, then something is severely missing.
Why can't we signal 'upstream' that there is a problem?!

Comment 18 Kevin Kofler 2011-01-30 17:03:47 UTC
> vaapi which works with intel/nvidia cards AFAIK.

Last I checked, vaapi was only supported if you build Gnash against FFmpeg instead of GStreamer, which we can't do in Fedora.

> Why can't we signal 'upstream' that there is a problem?!

AFAIK, upstream knows very well that their stuff is slow. But making it fast requires basically rewriting the whole thing.


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