I have an AMD Athlon X2 2.0Ghz CPU and nVidia GeForce 7100 GPU. Flash while watching a video on Hulu hovers at around 35% CPU usage, and total system CPU usage hovers at around 50% for each core (or 25% total). This is with "low" resolution, btw. Watching full screen (still low resolution) brings flash CPU usage to around 50% (maximum for one core), I imagine total CPU usage doesn't change much, except for one the core.
The plugin is only using 100MB of memory, as far as I can tell, and it doesn't appear to be climbing. I also only see one instance of the plugin, and I have browsed multiple pages that use Flash, so it doesn't appear to be leaving any rogue processes. I also don't see any npviewer.bin processes (the process is called chromium-browser, and the command used to call it was something like "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser <bla bla stuff> --type=plugin --channel=<bla> --plugin-path=<plugin path>"), is npviewer.bin what you're seeing, or is it something else? That aside, I don't notice any major performance hit when watching videos using Flash or browsing sites which use Flash. However, I still think an alternative would be greatly beneficial (Gnash, maybe?). On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 02:50 -0700, Fx wrote: > I'm curious to know, of those of you who have gotten Adobe Flash to > work with Linux Chromium, what kind of performance and system load are > you seeing? And what is your CPU and GPU? > > I have not tried to use Chromium yet on my laptop (2GHz Turion64x2, > nVidia GeForce Go 6150, Ubuntu Intrepid), but it seems that whenever I > go to a website using Flash -- regardless of the browser -- the Adobe > Flash plugin sucks up processor cycles and memory.... it quite > literally sucks. Even after I leave the Flash-using website, the > npviewer.bin process remains resident, consuming memory and %CPU. > Sometimes I see multiple copies of npviewer.bin adversely affecting my > system performance. > > If Adobe Flash imposes a noticeable drag on my system, I hate to > imagine what it might do to a single-core Atom netbook! I hope the > Chrome OS team is aware of this potential problem and investigating > possible solutions. My dream scenario would be for them to code a > Flash alternative for Chrome, one that could be compiled on other > distributions. That hope might be too ambitious... they might come up > with something more clever. > > As a start, a flash-blocking capability would help. Using VLC to play > Flash videos might be a possibility. An extreme solution might be for > YouTube to change formats, but it may be impossible to move the web > away from Flash, so it's a partial solution at best. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
