On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Yasha Karant wrote:
Right now, my quad core SL 6x X86-64 workstation is not responding very well; a quick look at top reveals:Tasks: 181 total, 2 running, 178 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 41.1%us, 7.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 51.3%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8196468k total, 8002116k used, 194352k free, 9344k buffers Swap: 2048252k total, 1753152k used, 295100k free, 543572k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3417 ykarant 20 0 1679m 738m 8752 S 122.2 9.2 9239:30 plugin-containe 3342 ykarant 20 0 2995m 2.2g 18m R 94.9 28.2 8309:43 firefox 2051 root 20 0 4448m 3.1g 9440 S 1.8 39.6 443:40.39 Xorg 2793 ykarant 9 -11 559m 3028 1860 S 1.8 0.0 20:04.64 pulseaudio 3113 ykarant 20 0 321m 6904 5292 S 1.8 0.1 211:10.01 gkrellm 18994 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.8 0.0 0:00.05 kworker/2:3 19318 ykarant 20 0 15136 1140 812 R 1.8 0.0 0:00.04 top 31800 ykarant 20 0 1247m 58m 952 S 1.8 0.7 68:45.24 java 1 root 20 0 19448 872 660 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.12 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.81 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.58 ksoftirqd/0 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kworker/u:0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.26 watchdog/0 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.72 ksoftirqd/1 12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.44 watchdog/1 Note that from above: 3417 ykarant 20 0 1679m 738m 8752 S 122.2 9.2 9239:30 plugin-containe 3342 ykarant 20 0 2995m 2.2g 18m R 94.9 28.2 8309:43 firefox My institution requires the use of Adobe flash (as well as java), and thus it seems that plugin-container is being used. Is there an alternative approach? The above seems to me a total waste of machine resources. Yasha Karant
Are you running the 32 or 64 bit version of Flash? Are you running only versions from SL or from someplace else?
-Connie Sieh
