[Opera-Linux] operapluginwrapper for Opera 9.50

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Álvaro G. Martínez <alvlin.uy at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi guys,
> When I'm browsing a site with flash objects, I can see how Opera makes my 
> system slow, and a look at `top` shows that operapluginwrapper is consuming 
> LOTS of cpu.
>
> I've seen this behaviour with older versions, but never on Windows also.
> Opera 9.50 alpha on Windows often just crashes, while Opera 9.50 beta on Linux 
> get stuck for a few seconds (sometimes 10 or 20 seconds).

That sounds like flash is crashing.  In windows, that will bring down
opera as well.  In linux, we will just time out the plug-in.

>
> I'm sure you've talked about this subject before, can this this be solved by 
> touching some configuration? Can you give me any interesting link?
>

The crashing may be a bug on our side.  It's certainly not intended :)

That flash is using lots of cpu is a known problem but we haven't got
a solution for it.  The pluginwrapper will probably nice itself
maximally to minimize the effect.  However, this doesn't help as much
as one could hope for, and has the side effect that flash itself
sometimes get insufficient runtime.  (The priority level can be set by
setting the environment variable OPERAPLUGINWRAPPER_PRIORITY to
whatever nice value the pluginwrapper should use.  As usual, 20 is the
lowest priority, -19 the highest, and you can probably not set it to a
negative number).

eirik