On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 21:01 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
My most recent test showed no effect on swap (1G Ram in the machine and 0 swap used). But Acroread was consuming 100% of one processor. I have
I wouldn't expect it to use more swap normally, bu it will only hand out memory if the swap is there in case it is needed (basically it'll only loan what is in the bank)
also re-acquired a problem I had with early F7 where I am getting frequent "Connection reset by remote host" messages and also lots of interrupted page loads on firefox (probably related).
Years ago I replaced acroread with evince and my world has been happier since. An strace should show what acroread is doing
The connection reset messages point to network problems and usually ones not at the Linux level but higher up - eg two boxes with the same IP address.
Alan
New discovery on this one... I finally got an error message after I locked down some ports and stuff. The lockup is due to npviewer which appears to be part of Adobe reader (Acroread). I checked several places, and our friend RJ has already submitted a bug report on it. It has been widely reported in other Linux distributions and I even saw a couple of Windows references to npviewer.exe as a similar problem for them.
So, I will table this research for now, and go after the cpu throttling problem (should have done that first, but I discovered this first and I like to chase things to the bitter end.)
By the way, someone recommended using Evince instead of acroread. That is a good idea, but I don't see how to eliminate acroread from my system. So If anyone can point me to some instructions on how to remove acroread and run evince, that would be appreciated. I will probably be off line while I vacuum my system and check the fans today, but back tomorrow or next week.
Regards, Les H