Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:25:26 -0400
> "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
>> I see this on occasion, but not all the time. 
> 
> A problem that I've found when allowing acroread to load pdf files into the
> Firefox window is that acroread will go wild if you close the tab.
> 
> Open a new tab in Firefox.  Load a PDF into the Firefox window.  Close the
> tab.  100% of the time, I see 100% cpu usage until I "killall acroread".
> 
> This is on Fedora 8/x86_64 with FF 2, so it may be different or changed/fixed on
> F9.

I've been using FF3 on F9.  One of the things happened to me recently 
was I was looking at a PDF in FF, I left the computer for 2 hours.  When 
I returned, the acroread plugin had run wild grabbing memory.  The OOM 
process was running trying to find processes to kill, my 2GB of 
swapspace was practically full, and the machine was very sluggish 
(thrashing).  I got control back after I was finally able to kill FF and 
acroread....  I was then able to turn off swap and re-enable it, and I 
was still using less than 30% of my 2GB of RAM after that!  Yes, I 
agree, FF and acroread are memory hungry.  BTW, this was with the 
acroread (AdobeReader?) tab still open....

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