From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 14:15:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C73A97EB for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a0i308.smtpcorp.com (a0i308.smtpcorp.com [216.22.15.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CEFE2F52 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:15:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=smtpcorp.com; s=a0_1; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=RCi5QtFsJSdzAqlas7EiT+81WXGCDIiYmHm0TLo1J5c=; b=dzV4OPOtchjn11SkucBR+EGhZIPBUICRutVDq/4gAqfSCDtoA6oEbZzZ/nKsgbb50y9isFCk1QpInciL5XjxJQMQMS2vZ83rqLUwk0FaYkXIsVsh6Zt8o4yZKk1T/tEYKojmTVaD/XNhjsxMXWvb8VJxyppZ4HGi/VAbEFPokGs=; From: Daniel Corbe To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: swamped with >100 npviewer.bin processes References: <201407101338.s6ADc8nb081254@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:01:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201407101338.s6ADc8nb081254@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:38:08 +0100 (BST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Smtpcorp-Track: 1b5EIJ4gfKW-jz.vpyikMWZ5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:15:21 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht 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