nspluginviewer hogs the CPU

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Binary package hint: konqueror-nsplugins

When accessing a page with embedded (flash)-plugins, nspluginviewe starts to hog the CPU and konqueror will become unusable.

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

After I killed the unresponsive konqueror, nspluginviewer is left behind. top shows:

top - 08:46:42 up 1 day, 15:26, 2 users, load average: 2.09, 0.96, 0.35
Tasks: 150 total, 9 running, 141 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.7%us, 0.4%sy, 97.8%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1035376k total, 1018644k used, 16732k free, 516764k buffers
Swap: 979956k total, 36740k used, 943216k free, 226908k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11557 hildeb 32 7 68720 15m 13m R 98.2 1.5 0:53.28 /usr/bin/nspluginviewer -dcopid nspluginviewer-11210
...

I attached strace to the process:

$ strace -p 11557
Process 11557 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 11557 detached

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your report. It seems a duplicate of 127876.