On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:34:51 +0200

Franchisseur Robert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



> > >we have recently noticed that acroread-9.3.3-1.slc4 from the 

> > >(...)

> > >takes almost 100% of the CPU. 

> > >

> > >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 :-(



Hi,



xpdf sucks rendering bigger pdfs (30+ MB), e.g. geo posters.

It stopps when quickly (and slowly too) moving sliders.



For todays PDFs the ypdf is piece of software junk.



You'd better try to check evince which allows convenient text copy.





>        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.



Try any possible PDF viewer for Linux you can grab from the Net.



Adobe has offered up to recently (you have to check it) several Acroread

versions - the former were smaller, less resource hungry and quicker.



Best regards



Przemysław Pawełczyk