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Re: problem with acroread SLC on SL4.8
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:28:43 +0100
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Franchisseur Robert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we have recently noticed that acroread-9.3.3-1.slc4 from the
> repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/$basearch/yum/updates/
>
> takes almost 100% of the CPU.
>
> Scientific Linux SL release 4.8 (Beryllium)
> Linux reynolds.lmd.jussieu.fr 2.6.9-89.0.26.EL #1 Wed Jun 16 04:44:53 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Does anybody see the same behavior ?

I have seen acroread use all memory and hence lots of CPU.
This was SL5 and appeared only to be when used as a firefox plugin.
Disabling nppdf.so and getting firefox to use acroread as a standalone
application seems to have stopped the excessive memory use.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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