gnash eats up ram

[exactt]

Binary package hint: mozilla-plugin-gnash

here on latest gutsy amd64

steps to reproduce:

go to http://www.spiegel.de/ . find one of the embedded mini flash videos. there is a play button below them and the word "Abspielen" (German for play).

open the system monitor and watch the process gtk-gnash consuming more and more ram as you hit the above play button.

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

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.

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

I installed GNASH for the first time since I left the above comment, about a week ago. This bug must have been fixed, since that time, because I have not seen the issue again. The memory usage has never again raced and used all the memory, nor has GNASH started allocating swap space. I consider this bug closed and marking it so.

[chromepeer (tv-t-p)]

It looks like it is NOT a resolved issue. I have same setupa as you, Gutsy [7.10] AMD64, fresh install.
gtk-gnash eats 0.6+GB of memory on some sites, paging starts and system goes to a crawl. Killing all gtk-gnash processes resolves the problem for a short time. Not every flash-enabled site starts the problem, witch is interesting.
I hope there will soon be an update for mozilla-plugin-gnash which will resolve this AMD64-flash nightmare once and for all.

[chromepeer (tv-t-p)]

It looks like it is NOT a resolved issue. I have same setup as you, Gutsy [7.10] AMD64, fresh install.
gtk-gnash eats 0.6+GB of memory on some sites, paging starts and system goes to a crawl. Killing all gtk-gnash processes resolves the problem for a short time. Not every flash-enabled site starts the problem, witch is interesting.
I hope there will soon be an update for mozilla-plugin-gnash which will resolve this AMD64-flash nightmare once and for all.