Description of problem: I noticed that on my F14 32-bit system there is a package installed: $ yum info nspluginwrapper Once I start playing youtube flash video one of its executables, npviewer.bin, gets activated. The problem is that when I stop playing youtube, it still is shown in top and contributing approx. 2-3% CPU, but also in Powertop and contributing approx. 15% to wakeups. According to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash this package is part of 32-bit installation instructions; it is even said that ... a default graphical install of 32-bit Fedora already includes both nspluginwrapper and ... As I understand this package is not needed on 32-bit Fedora. So why is it included at all ? But even if it is, why is it activated, at least under circumstance described above ? As a mater of fact, I removed it (there were no dependencies on it), started youtube and all was OK. Rahul Sundaram explained: "It forces the plugins to run in a separate process bringing in more stability and helps secure it with SELinux." But, we have a problem on Fedora with excessive CPU loads/wakeups in machine idle state, coming from different sources (kernel, user apps), which we try to find. When a process finishes its task in a system (here: playing flash video), it should release its resources, assuming they are not shared by other processes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nspluginwrapper.i686 1.3.0-14.fc14 fedora How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. install nspluginwrapper and powertop 2. start youtube video 3. watch npviewer.bin in '# powertop' and '$ top' 4. stop youtube video 5. watch npviewer.bin in '# powertop' and '$ top' Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 426968 ***