On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 21:01 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > My most recent test showed no effect on swap (1G Ram in the machine and > > 0 swap used). But Acroread was consuming 100% of one processor. I have > > I wouldn't expect it to use more swap normally, bu it will only hand out > memory if the swap is there in case it is needed (basically it'll only > loan what is in the bank) > > > also re-acquired a problem I had with early F7 where I am getting > > frequent "Connection reset by remote host" messages and also lots of > > interrupted page loads on firefox (probably related). > > Years ago I replaced acroread with evince and my world has been happier > since. An strace should show what acroread is doing > > The connection reset messages point to network problems and usually ones > not at the Linux level but higher up - eg two boxes with the same IP > address. > > Alan New discovery on this one... I finally got an error message after I locked down some ports and stuff. The lockup is due to npviewer which appears to be part of Adobe reader (Acroread). I checked several places, and our friend RJ has already submitted a bug report on it. It has been widely reported in other Linux distributions and I even saw a couple of Windows references to npviewer.exe as a similar problem for them. So, I will table this research for now, and go after the cpu throttling problem (should have done that first, but I discovered this first and I like to chase things to the bitter end.) By the way, someone recommended using Evince instead of acroread. That is a good idea, but I don't see how to eliminate acroread from my system. So If anyone can point me to some instructions on how to remove acroread and run evince, that would be appreciated. I will probably be off line while I vacuum my system and check the fans today, but back tomorrow or next week. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
