From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 04:44:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFAB106566B; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82A48FC0C; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so6263945wwe.31 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:44:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=w6+W2M882QcNOpVbmYLdCd9Lzz1VS9zZ0TmIBjeaZDw=; b=c/47JRWhaQMyXEFtyBcmyInri/UXG27Xx8wHZdf4nEiD1U31le1mROefh37jr8zT39 wiUiOWVW4vSTeH+UFCPSYIum94ShhrUT85oadZbP7wuqvol8R0OkqeYHWsJihpYZrImg EY3nhqoVPU3LDZc+Lgq+5mF1PAzQi+0o5trjM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.8.200 with SMTP id 50mr3033720wer.37.1310618674807; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.217.5.197 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:44:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:44:34 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Flash Player and nspluginwrapper instability X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:44:36 -0000 On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > Recently (in the last few weeks), I've lost the ability to use Flash > in the browser on 9-CURRENT. Details: > > FreeBSD m6500.local 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r223911: Sun > Jul 10 14:53:05 CDT 2011 > firefox-5.0,1 > nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 > linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r181.34 > [SNIP] > > -Brandon I started bisecting kernel, world, nspluginwrapper, and flash plugin versions starting from stuff I had laying around from early June 'til today, and I saw the same behavior no matter what versions of software I was using. Then, it hit me -- I upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 16GB about a few weeks ago, and that's around the time I remember last using flash in the browser. So, I opened up my computer, removed 8GB of memory (and added back the old 2x2GB sticks so the computer would boot -- I have another 8GB loaded in slots under the keyboard), giving me a total of 12GB of memory. I updated kernel, world and ports, and gave Hulu a whirl. No issues whatsoever. Youtube was also OK. I've been able to use flash for quite a while now, with no issues. So, there is something going wrong with the combination of software, hardware (NVIDIA with any version of their drivers), and the large memory size, in my case 16GB. Drop it down to say, 12GB, and everything is stable... -Brandon