Bug 549311 - npviewer.bin high cpu usage even with idle flash videos
Summary: npviewer.bin high cpu usage even with idle flash videos
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 426968
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nspluginwrapper
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-21 10:00 UTC by udo
Modified: 2010-02-24 19:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-24 19:22:57 UTC
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Description udo 2009-12-21 10:00:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
high cpu usage even with idle flash videos

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-10.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
See below

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run FireFox
2. visit sites with flash, e.g. http://www.maxkeiser.com/
3. notice the videos are not playing but do observe one CPU core being absorbed with the not playing videos.
  
Actual results:
Unnecessary CPU cycle consumption

Expected results:
way less CPU consumption

Additional info:
Fedora 12 (upgraded F11)
kernel.org 2.6.32
git radeonhd
git mesa
did happen since many many moons
Comment 1 udo 2010-01-10 16:04:07 UTC 
npviewer.bin[21826]: segfault at 80000000 ip 0000000080000000 sp 00000000ffca01fc error 14

I see that too often as well.
Comment 2 udo 2010-02-24 16:36:05 UTC 
It happens when the vids are *idle*.
It wastes CPU.
So it wastes electricty.
So this bug is bad for the environment, assuming that most of the electricity is generated in a non-green way.
PLEASE fix.

Need more info?
Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2010-02-24 19:22:57 UTC 
Feel free to write the patch and I'll happily test it. The current state of this bug is that I have no idea how to fix it unless we want to break some plug-ins.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 426968 ***
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