On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 19:42 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I responded to the thread entitled "Flash 10.1 uses 90%+ CPU" by saying: > "In any case, I get the same problem you describe when I simply > do a restart after installation. I have found, on the other > had, that if I do a full shutdown and a cold boot my CPU and > Memory utilization drops back to normal." > > The OP tried and it did not help him solve his problem. > > The re-booting solution has not been an one-off thing that might have > worked by accident. I have been using it through at least 2 Fedora > versions and probably 10-15 upgrades. After a simple re-start my > Firefox shoots up to about 90% CPU usage and shows 100% memory use. > When I close down and reboot, FireFox drops to 0% to 10% usage with less > than 50% memory usage. > > I have an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 2 Gb memory. > > Why would rebooting vs restarting make a difference? Any suggestions? Wild guess: either restarting FF leaves an old copy of Flash running (could check with ps), or it's something to do with cacheing or prelinking. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines