I consider my hunch of yesterday morning to be now substantiated. The benefits of blocking Adobe Flash make a difference as drastic as night and day.
My current uptime is trivial: only 36 hours, but for the last several months, my KDE session would by now long since have become unusable on this system with a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM. dbus-daemon's RSS memory usage is stable plus or minus a few hundred bytes at 0.1% of memory. Before it would have been at >25%. System load, reported by (h)top, was frequently over 25; now, it is always under 0.1%; often, it is 0.01%. Flash is now installed on the system, but only on Firefox; Flashblock is also installed. I have also intentionally not stayed away obsessively from Flash: as a test, I even played one YouTube video which demonstrated the technique that the accompanying article explained. Every time that I have viewed a Flash object, I have been careful to close the page immediately. I had not thought that Flash could make so drastic a difference to the overall health of one's computer and computer usage. -- dbus-daemon memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
