gnash eats up ram
Bug #164603 reported by
exactt
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnash (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mozilla-
here on latest gutsy amd64
steps to reproduce:
go to http://
open the system monitor and watch the process gtk-gnash consuming more and more ram as you hit the above play button.
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Yes, putting my 'Me, too!' here... Also on Gutsy [7.10] AMD64. It doesn't take long before I was hitting web sites, with Firefox, that would cause this problem. When it occurs, GNASH just starts chewing through memory, allocating more and more. Once it allocates all the real memory, Ubuntu starts swapping out virtual memory. When this happens, the system slows to a crawl and the problem is hard to fix because of the unresponsiveness. Ubuntu will start swapping more and more memory back and forth between virtual and actual memory without end.
This is a serious problem, and I caution against anyone installing mozilla- plugin- gnash on AMD64 Ubuntu until it is resolved.