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 > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill