Hello David, I understand you gave the free hand on upping the severity in a previous mail, so why do you disregard this now ? Anyway, i have here an extract of a bug report concerning this issue, and you will judge by yourself if this don't enter in the category of "makes the whole system unusable" :
| Started using it. Fine at first, then the great slowdown. Slowdown to useless. | Ten minutes to reboot, then fine again. | | Looked closely at top. And there it was. swf_play. Four instances each | claiming 25%+ of cpu. Quit Firefox and swf_play remains+as a memory hog. | | Rebooted and carefully watched top. Each time I loaded a webpage with Flash, | swf_play loaded. At three instances, noticable | +slowdown. At four, the great slow down. Recoverable (by me) only through | reboot. Kill pid and 'End Process' would not shut | +down the instances of swf_play. This was not the case for previous versions of swf-player, so i think your opinion that it is merely a process eating lot of CPU power is unfunded. This is on a 1GHz G4 with 256MB of ram, not some slow m68k box. Neither is the 1.6MHz P4 mentioned by someone else. I let it to your discretion to reup the severity, but i don't think it acceptable to ship sarge with a package that can easily make the system crawl to unusability. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
