why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Sun Mar 23 11:21:38 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:26:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
> weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
> machine in terms of response.
> 
>   "top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly
> chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more).  is this
> normal?  is this what others are seeing?  because if firefox 3 turns
> out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to
> dump firefox for good.
> 
"100 to 150 per cent of my CPU", doesn't make a lot of sense, are you
sure it means what you think it means?

-- 
Chris Green




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