High resource usage for Konq, nspluginviewer and Xorg...

[Linuxguy123]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:13 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 02/26/2010 09:40 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 
> > a) As far as I know huge changes were made to the KDE multimedia
> > subsystem, aka Phonon.  CPU usage was not high before the KDE 4.4
> > update.
> 
> Not really.  Most of the major updates here landed without our previous 
> kde-4.3.4 and phonon-4.3.80 ones.

I didn't know this.

> > b) I have reported a number of bug that were shut down due to "the use
> > of the proprietary nvidia driver" where it was ultimately found that the
> > driver had nothing to do with it.
> 
> Sure, there are exceptions, but genuine driver issues still outnumber 
> others by far.

I don't know that, just because I don't keep track, but I'll take your
word and agree.  And I understand that you guys have other priorities,
etc. 

> That said, video drivers have zero bearing here, flash does.

I didn't know that either.

> I can chime in to report that I too have seen higher cpu usage with 
> flash/nspluginview, but only noticed recently, *after* a flash-plugin 
> update that I installed on Jan 27.

That would be greatly appreciated, Rex.  

Let me/us know what we can do to help.  ie bugzilla report, testing,
etc.

Nice work, Rex.

LG