-- 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. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------