Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up my resources. Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox. Any use Xpdf or something else?
On 13 Jan 2009, at 05:58, Ed Donahue wrote:> Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? > > I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up > my resources. > > Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, > have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox. > > Any use Xpdf or something else?Hey I wrote an rpm for xpdf some time back you might want to check http://computingfunnyfacts.blogspot.com/2008/11/xpdf-in-centos.html out Acrocread does not strike me as a good pice of kit but that is for everyone to decide. Cheers Didi> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Ed Donahue wrote:> Any use Xpdf or something else?Use evince. Acroread just isn't worth it. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090113/52cdad92/attachment-0003.sig>
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 00:58 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote:> Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory?Not here.> > I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up > my resources.I don't see it here. Maybe I need to look next time even though I see no adverse symptoms after use.> > Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, > have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox. > > Any use Xpdf or something else?I've tried the others and don't find them suitable for me. I don't know if my configuration is comparable to yours, but I'm on 5.x, fully updated, i386, 2GB ram, FF 3.x fully up-to-date, and the acroread is $ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu.i486 AdobeReader_enu-8.1.3-1.i486> <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com> wrote:> Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? > > I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up > my resources. > > Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, > have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox. > > Any use Xpdf or something else?For .pdf files I have on my HD, I usually view them with KPDF, which is based on xpdf. One of several KDE applications I use, on GNOME. There is an Add On or Plug in, for viewing .pdf files on Firefox, PDFescape, which I have installed. I've only used it a couple of times but it seems to work.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com> wrote:> Any have trouble with acroread taking up massive cpu and memory? > > I exited my Firefox browser and the lil bastard was still hogging up > my resources. > > Took up 69% of 4GB, and wouldn't let go, until a kill -9 showed'em, > have to do it every time I open a pdf in firefox. >Funny you should bring this up. A day or two ago, I noticed the performance monitor on my desktop was showing about 50% cpu usage. When I ran top, I found acroread eating 99% of a cpu, which I thought was strange. I looked around, and there were no acroread windows open, so I checked with ps and found an orphan acroread (most likely from seamonkey, I think). I had to kill -9 it (kill didn't work), but that's the first and so far only time I've seen this. Usually it's seamonkey that's hogging about 10-25% of a cpu. HTH. mhr