On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 06:09 +0000, Thufir wrote:
It happened again, and I tried to kill totem through "top", but it kept saying "no such process ID", so I fired up the Process Monitor GUI and was unable to kill it from there, too. It appeared to simply re-spawn with a different PID (?). So, I uninstalled it
I can imagine that if you have a page trying to load media in the background (e.g. adverts that cycle through playing different media files), it's possible that it could keep on getting called up.
However, I kinda need it, or mplayer, or something. I'll try mplayer to see if it has a similar interaction with wget, download helper and flashgot.
I'd imagine a similar problem. You're fixing the side effect rather than the cause.
I use Flashblock on my browser, so I don't have to put up with all the nonsense on some webpages. I notice that if I disable it, allowing all the content, again, some pages will peg my CPU as they load their crap. If I allow just one thing to load, something I want to look at, generally I'm fine. But, sometimes, even that one thing is enough to bog the system down.