After a few hours of surfing, I find ~5-10 nspluginviewer processes that have taken 100% of cpu. I have to repeatedly 'killall nspluginviewer' to get back to normal cpu usage. NB this bug has been reported on other distributions, and some people have posted kludges to do the latter every X seconds. Thatsa no good fix. Nspluginviewer should be constrained automatically to be a good citizen, with a nice value, or a watchdog process that kills greedy scripts, or something. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open konqueror 2. Surf web 3. run 'top' or similar.
KDE 3.5 or 4. Are you using the Qt-Gtk engine? emerge --info missing.
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This problem is only getting worse. I suspect most people who don't run xosview don't notice it. KDE 3.5 jesnow # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:45:03 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://85.25.128.62" LINGUAS="en_US en de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j10" PKGDIR="/home/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/home/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apm arts berkdb bzlib cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dga directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod minimal mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xscreensaver xv zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en de fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vga fbdev i810 intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I'm sorry I didn't repond, somhow I didn't get the needinfo request, this is still a major annoyance for me, and for others as well, I've seen scripts out there that repeat "killall nspluginviewer" every second, but that leads to problems too.
I confirm this problem. Here is my Gentoo information. kde-3.5 cm001 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:34:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_GB" LC_ALL="en_GB" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox gd gdbm ggi gif gpm graphviz gstreamer hal iconv icu ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kerberos latex ldap libnotify live mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap multislot ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg svga sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="xgi sis vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
In kde-4.2 I see same problem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4347 tuupic 39 19 122m 29m 16m R 133 1.5 0:10.43 nspluginviewer
It is flash guys. Test it with gnash or swfdec. We cant make that binary blob to behave. Please confirm that nspluginviewer is not evil when using the above instead of flash.
Marking as NEEDINFO, feel free to reopen this after you check out the alternatives Tomas suggested and/or the latest flash plugin.
