On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:48:15AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:15:24PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:32:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hello David, > > Thanks for CCing me on the bug report :) > > > > I understand you gave the free hand on upping the severity in a previous > > > mail, > > > so why do you disregard this now ? > > > > Because the comments since the 0.3.2-2 upload have only mentioned > > CPU usage, which is _completely_ uninteresting w.r.t. this bug. > > swf_play can scale CPU usage by as much as a factor of 10, using > > as much as possible for better quality. This is not a bug. > > Well, CPU usage would be ok, but i feel that it is using excessive CPU usage, > and furthermore i feel that even 4 processes are using *all* the CPU power > available, and it seems to be also linked with the available memory. > > I have had at least 3-4 such reports, and am asking Ingo to also mention his > experience with this. All those i know have disabled swf-player to solve the > issue. > > Do you have an idea of why so much cpu power is used ? And maybe some kind of > control option, ideally set at install time depending on the number of > processors, would help in this case ?
BTW, i am also getting : 14752 sven 16 0 10444 3848 6444 S 99.9 0.7 51:37.43 swf_play with a load average of 4.15. My machine still seems responsive, but not for compilation tasks and such. I have to say that i haven't touched the browser for something like half an hour, and from all the tabs open, the only one susceptible to be involved seems to be : http://news.com.com/FireFox+continues+gains+against+IE/2100-1032_3-5545930.html?tag=nefd.top as the others are debian stuff, the gnome bugzilla, and ppczone which doesn't run flash. I repeat that i would prefer sfwdec not shipping as part of sarge in these conditions, or we will get a lot of bad press and people don't understanding why debian/sarge suddenly crawls to death. As thus i still vote this as being RC level, but you are the maintainer, and has to decide. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
