Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Any use Xpdf or something else?
On 13 Jan 2009, at 05:58, Ed Donahue wrote:
Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Any use Xpdf or something else?
Hey
I wrote an rpm for xpdf some time back you might want to check http://computingfunnyfacts.blogspot.com/2008/11/xpdf-in-centos.html out
Acrocread does not strike me as a good pice of kit but that is for everyone to decide.
Cheers Didi
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On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 00:58 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote:
Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
Not here.
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
I don't see it here. Maybe I need to look next time even though I see no adverse symptoms after use.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Any use Xpdf or something else?
I've tried the others and don't find them suitable for me.
I don't know if my configuration is comparable to yours, but I'm on 5.x, fully updated, i386, 2GB ram, FF 3.x fully up-to-date, and the acroread is
$ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu.i486 AdobeReader_enu-8.1.3-1.i486
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HTH
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:26 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 00:58 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote:
Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
Not here.
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
I don't see it here. Maybe I need to look next time even though I see no adverse symptoms after use.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Any use Xpdf or something else?
I've tried the others and don't find them suitable for me.
I don't know if my configuration is comparable to yours, but I'm on 5.x, fully updated, i386, 2GB ram, FF 3.x fully up-to-date, and the acroread is
$ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu.i486 AdobeReader_enu-8.1.3-1.i486
---- I tend to use Fedora for 'desktop' usage and CentOS for servers so I don't use FF & acroread frequently on CentOS but...
acroread is a good program and runs really well.
acroread plugin in Firefox is a memory/resource hog - so I agree with OP and I tend to just disable it so that when I click a PDF link in Firefox, it just downloads the file and opens it up separately in acroread application and everything is fine.
Though to be honest, now in Fedora 10, things are a bit better with acroread plugin and I haven't disabled it yet.
Craig
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Ed Donahue liberaled@gmail.com wrote:
Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Any use Xpdf or something else?
For .pdf files I have on my HD, I usually view them with KPDF, which is based on xpdf. One of several KDE applications I use, on GNOME. There is an Add On or Plug in, for viewing .pdf files on Firefox, PDFescape, which I have installed. I've only used it a couple of times but it seems to work.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Ed Donahue liberaled@gmail.com wrote:
Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?
I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources.
Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox.
Funny you should bring this up. A day or two ago, I noticed the performance monitor on my desktop was showing about 50% cpu usage. When I ran top, I found acroread eating 99% of a cpu, which I thought was strange. I looked around, and there were no acroread windows open, so I checked with ps and found an orphan acroread (most likely from seamonkey, I think). I had to kill -9 it (kill didn't work), but that's the first and so far only time I've seen this. Usually it's seamonkey that's hogging about 10-25% of a cpu.
HTH.
mhr
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