On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Baykan TOKMAKCIOGLU wrote: > On 10/19/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 07:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > on a fairly regular basis, firefox just drags the system to its > > > knees, like right now on my fedora test system, where "top" shows it > > > currently bouncing between using 101% and 102% of the CPU. that > > > *can't* be right. :-) > > > > > > rday > > > > > > > > > Actually it can. (My dual dual core Opteron running a one of my servers > > under load) > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 6282 gilboa 20 0 640m 534m 648 S 361 13.5 0:16.45 userbase > > > > A multithreaded application (such as firefox) can eat 100% CPU -per- > > core. > > If you have a P4 with hyper-threading (or above), a single process can > > eat 200% (or above)... > > > > Never the less, firefox should not eat 102% CPU... were you running a > > flash-something or a heavy java applet at the time? > > > > - Gilboa > > > > Especially, flash 9 plug-in creates a terrible load on my systems. > > It can suck the resources if you are displaying a flash intensive > > page (youtube e.g .) yes, that sounds like the culprit right there. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
