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

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 12:12:27 UTC 2010


Linuxguy123 wrote:

> I know that the new KDE framework is better in a lot of ways, but I
> can't help but notice that when viewing a fairly simple web page, the
> combination of konqueror, nspluginviewer and Xorg is using 20-25% of my
> available CPU resource. It used to use about 10%.  Usage seems to go up
> with every KDE iteration.
> 
> I find this a bit troubling.
> 
> I am not running a lightweight machine.  My laptop has a T8100 processor
> with 4 GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 8800M GTS video card.  I DO NOT
> have any desktop effects enabled and I am using the proprietary nVidia
> driver.
> 
> F12, fully up to date.
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri
> Feb 19 19:10:04 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Let me know what else you would like to know.

Same results here - very similar setup.  You wanna know what's _really_ 
annoying about flash?  It's eating cpu even if I pause the damn video!!



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