[Opera-Linux] Opera v9.5 + flash usually work

[Patricia Aas]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:20:03 +0200, Kenneth Crudup <kenny at panix.com> wrote:

> Patricia- while we have your ear- is there anything that can be done  
> about
> operapluginwrapper sucking down all the CPU? While I'm sure y'all have
> seen this and are doing anything you can, it happens quite frequently,  
> and
> almost always is connected to flash.
>
> I'm running 64-bit (userspace too) Ubuntu 8.04 (but this has been going  
> on
> for a while) and the most usual test case is when npviewer.bin (the  
> wrapper
> for Adobe Flash for 64-bit) either segfaults (it does that a lot) or has
> to be killed 'cause it, too, is sucking down a lot of CPU.  
> operapluginwrapper
> loses it afterwards, and takes 100% of CPU, usually looping while trying  
> to
> talk to the now-nonexistant wrapped process on the other end of the  
> socket
> (I'm sure I could post the relevant "strace" lines next time it happens,
> which won't be too long from now, I'm sure).

First of all, why are you using a wrapper for flash on 64-bit linux? 64  
bit linux 9.5 ships with a 32-bit and a 64-bit wrapper, with a shell  
script to serve up the right one. Debugging will be cleaner if we cut out  
the middle man :) Just point your plugin path at the real Flash Player and  
it should Just Work

Secondly the 100% CPU I have seen seem to be in Flash, but in your case it  
seems to be a bug in npviewer.bin, there is nothing in the wrapper that  
spins trying to talk to a plugin, the plugins are loaded in-process and  
can be called with a simple function call.

With the 100% CPU issues I have seen with Flash, they seem dramatically  
improved in Astro (Flash Player 10):

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

and so far I have not seen it crash either, which happened a bit with 9.

Patricia

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