From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 14:48:06 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 4D40A15A for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog117.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog117.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.143]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E6D2224C for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob117.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKU76niKfl2cx6ZV+R1+uQi8gSVwa99ko9@postini.com; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:48:05 UTC Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t60so9163117wes.28 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:message-id:to:subject:cc:reply-to :in-reply-to; bh=iD9wy7WRU8Ur++L8SS2YddgH+TPVL/foAVaol+HDOqQ=; b=JcRhvikDlR8F14HTT65PdkLHTVL4ALfdvUu4f+W/dEzBb7QKwveILDp0+8dNpCXQ/R A497FzWmsWKlDpfqQ+O2jGeAjk8h8o4NWIijlDkQdgAhS8Wr8nV06ugP/Io7N8jzAyBZ tUSPAMgoIQzQHrf2tjtITWYqlAlTE00JdAcSWO5BF74nGRlh+HP8JnPeMMbCAw8/7BW/ Ww5AUdFRQpTwe5HwiQG8fC+/sofvUicixsllrjU/JpCYTcmMsD8NzITWBgCZ2/RRQ7fx qXNw+bLeaQST873bHqa66Z4+9tmI6+pJNe0exzo01t9abWrzvoTAr533T/XPSdCi3iTz 34gA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk0X3uwMr+JP8Ih/YbLnWoYD48Zk93u83Wg0TqOt6SrnXDLxEdfChXE1WQKE7Pvxq2k8+u5Lp5Cc7du3JcIAenkfMS9rGzWXIdGbcxM8L/h5/Ax9MKSzk7raf7FXlltwGs0e8H6GJMkUybLnxefkWydVBsiyQ== X-Received: by 10.180.21.200 with SMTP id x8mr19601021wie.70.1405003656840; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.21.200 with SMTP id x8mr19601012wie.70.1405003656745; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.187.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id di7sm110820209wjb.34.2014.07.10.07.47.35 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s6AElYwR081402 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:47:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s6AElYWa081401; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:47:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:47:34 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201407101447.s6AElYWa081401@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: corbe@corbe.net, mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: swamped with >100 npviewer.bin processes Reply-To: mexas@bris.ac.uk In-Reply-To: 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 14:48:06 -0000 >From corbe@corbe.net Thu Jul 10 15:39:50 2014 > >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... >> >What do you mean by they refuse to die? That they keep running, long after their parent process, the firefox, has terminated. >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. ok, so it's not just me. I'll try doing this, but does this not merit a PR? Anton