Comment #4 on issue 28930 by Robert.Bradbury: Flash (libflashplayer.so process) consumes excessive CPU http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28930
I note that the libflashplayer.so process seems to have morphed in the most recent version into something identified on top/ps only as "exe" (unless one goes to the trouble of making up a special ps which identifies chrome and all of its children. I recently killed one (exe process) which was running and had an accumulated CPU time 5+ hours (of windows which I was probably never viewing). And Evan -- it is completely UNTRUE that you cannot stop it or that you cannot even monitor it -- since you are running these in sub-processes the parent can either kill the sub-process (when the window is migrated away from -- i.e. no longer being viewed) or nice it down to a low priority. Chromium's current policy with regard to flash is equivalent to subscribing to the Boston Globe on the weekends but allowing them to drop ads on your desk (and mind you not very directed ads) every few hours -- Something which would lead me to believe that Google is being corrupted by Adobe. And I am unaware of which specific flash blocking extension you may be referring. It is unclear to me what the compatibility between Firefox Extensions and Chromium Extensions/plugins there is. I have already encountered at least one problem in this area and am not comfortable with trying to explore the entire field. In this respect the Chromium team could do a lot to emulate the Mozilla/Firefox extensions/plugins model. Or you could put flash playing completely under user control (after all its *MY* computer and I should have some ability to control its electricity use. I.e. when to start (spawn) CPU intensive processes, when to stop it (SIGSTOP as I previously mentioned); and how much to limit its CPU consumption to (say 5 minutes). Since you already know that Flash (due to overuse by advertisers) is a bad actor you should have an extensive set of ways to control it -- Both at the default system level and the user control level. Here is a question for you to seriously think about: What is larger -- the power consumption (and commonly contribution to global warming) google server farms or millions, or even hundreds of millions, of PC's running flash videos that nobody is watching? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
