Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-05 Thread John Doe
From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:43:27AM -0800, John Doe wrote: Maybe webkit's ImageDecoder function... Firefox uses WebKit Ok, maybe I need some vacations... Last try, from the source mozilla-release/image/src/RasterImage.cpp:

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread John Doe
From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us I'm suddenly noticing multiple threads named ImageDecoder showing up in the output of top (when threads are turned on with H). I've no clue what this is, and haven't found out much about it by searching. Can someone tell me what it is, and if

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:26:32AM -0800, John Doe wrote: From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us I'm suddenly noticing multiple threads named ImageDecoder showing up in the output of top (when threads are turned on with H). I've no clue what this is, and haven't found out much

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us a écrit : Um, it appears in the process list as ImageDecoder. I don't know how one would determine that it's java or not. Can you give me a hint? Try pstree ? HTH, Laurent. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread m . roth
Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:26:32AM -0800, John Doe wrote: From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us I'm suddenly noticing multiple threads named ImageDecoder showing up in the output of top (when threads are turned on with H). I've no clue what this is, and haven't

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:31:51PM +, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us a écrit : Um, it appears in the process list as ImageDecoder. I don't know how one would determine that it's java or not. Can you give me a hint? Try pstree ? pstree

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread m . roth
Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:31:51PM +, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us a écrit : Um, it appears in the process list as ImageDecoder. I don't know how one would determine that it's java or not. snip here's some output from top (with

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread John Doe
From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us so, Firefox has spawned a ton of child threads, and some of them appear in top as Image Decoder #x. I dunno WHY they have a strange name, but at least I now know where they came from. Maybe webkit's ImageDecoder function... JD

Re: [CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:43:27AM -0800, John Doe wrote: From: Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us so, Firefox has spawned a ton of child threads, and some of them appear in top as Image Decoder #x. I dunno WHY they have a strange name, but at least I now know where they came from.

[CentOS] what is: ImageDecoder

2014-02-03 Thread Fred Smith
I'm suddenly noticing multiple threads named ImageDecoder showing up in the output of top (when threads are turned on with H). I've no clue what this is, and haven't found out much about it by searching. Can someone tell me what it is, and if it's doing anything useful or just wasting cycles?