-- Le (On) 2010-07-28 +0200 à (at) 10:18:39 Matthias Schroeder écrivit (wrote): --

> Hello,
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Yes, it is a known feature. Just don't use acroread...
> 

       I personally use xpdf but many people want acroread :-(


> Matthias
> 
> >

-- Le (On) 2010-07-28 +0100 à (at) 09:28:43 Dr Andrew C Aitchison écrivit (wrote): --

><snip> 
> 
> 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.

       We do not see this problem with SL5 :)

       It is in SL4.8 and not only within firefox but standalone also.


> Disabling nppdf.so and getting firefox to use acroread as a standalone
> application seems to have stopped the excessive memory use.

       I removed nppdf.so without success.


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