Comment 7 for bug 260004

I did a bit more testing with this issue as it is hitting us a bit and I have seen several mentions of it around. When a PDF is loaded within Firefox using Adobe's acroread, ld-linux.so.2 (Linux dynamic loader) is loaded. It runs at about 30 - 50% CPU and does not unload when acroread is closed. It will then continue running at high CPU, and with an apparent memory leak it gradually consumes all available memory and then paging starts. The system gradually becomes unusable and requires a full reboot to restore operation ( on my laptop I am unable to even get enouth resources to kill the process). I am using 64Bit Intrepid.

I tested loading a PDF directly with acroread and the issue does not seem to occur - ld-linux.so.2 is loaded, (and there is still a bit of a possible memory leak), but it does not hog CPU and unloads when acroread is finished.

It looks to me that the issue lies with the way the firefox plugin loads ld-linux.so.2. Work around seems to be to disable the Firefox plugin and download PDFs rather the opening them in the browser.

I think the plug-in belongs to Mozilla ?