Re: Wow... (<-- blown away at performance)

On 22/02/2011 23:33, Alexander Best wrote:

>>>>>      Also, it looks like npviewer.bin still hangs to resources on until
>>>>> Firefox closes (or I kill it :)..), so something still needs to be
>>>>> resolved there, but that isn't a regression (it's acted that way for
>>>>> ages), and shouldn't be too hard to do.

While on the subject - any ideas why npviewer.bin is present as so many 
processes? They all appear to have some identical properties, most 
curiously their memory usage, so shouldn't they be threads?

betelgeuse:~> ps axu | grep npv
ivoras      7775  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  S     8:03pm   0:11.84 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7787  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.86 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7788  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.55 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7789  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.56 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7790  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.56 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7791  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.55 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7792  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.55 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7793  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.51 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7794  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:00.00 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7795  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  S     8:03pm   0:00.01 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7796  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:00.44 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7797  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  S     8:03pm   0:03.56 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7798  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.41 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7799  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.41 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7800  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.40 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7801  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.38 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7802  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.40 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7803  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.40 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7804  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.41 
/usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrappe
ivoras      7805  0.0  1.3 695332 55760  ??  I     8:03pm   0:01.38 
/usr/local/lib/ns