Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:01:06 -0400 From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swamped with >100 npviewer.bin processes Message-ID: <ygf1tttcnz1.fsf@corbe.net> In-Reply-To: <201407101338.s6ADc8nb081254@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:38:08 %2B0100 (BST)") References: <201407101338.s6ADc8nb081254@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> writes: > Not sure which list to address this. > > I use nspluginwrapper-1.4.4_3 with firefox, > as per Handbook. Just noticed that I have 174! > npviewer.bin processes after firefox is closed. > Is this expected? > > The processes consume a large chunk of memory, > and refuse to disapper. I can kill them one by > one, but... > > The processes are: > > $ ps axwwdd | grep npview > 2123 3 S 0:00.07 |-- > /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so > --connection > /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/1295-2/1804289383 > 2124 3 S 0:00.07 |-- > /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so > --connection > /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/1295-2/1804289383 > ... > and a further 142 processes. > > Anybody else is seeing this? > This is a dual core laptop: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD minky 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #16 r267106: Wed Jun > 11 11:16:38 BST 2014 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINKY amd64 > > Thanks > > Anton > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" What do you mean by they refuse to die? I've had massive issues in the past with npviewer. It's directly related to the linux flash plugin. I keep lots of tabs open so I usually end up with a massive amount of these things running and consuming a very low amount of CPU usage -- and as you stated -- quite a big chunk of memory too. Doing a 'killall -9 npviewer.bin' every so often solves the problem for me. -Daniel
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