is the CPU consumption related to the sites you are browsing? i.e. skyrockets when browsing ynet, goes down to about 0% when browsing just about:blank? if it's the flash player's host process, that's what i'd expect. on fedora i have a host process called "npviewer.bin" that behaves as you described and eats CPU on flash intensive sites.
2009/2/24 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>: > Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > In the latest update of my Mandriva 2008.1 box, I moved from Firefox > 2.0.0.16 > to 3.0.6. Everything seems OK, but I noticed that when I run Firefox, an > additional process starts - plugserver.ex. This process is a VERY heavy CPU > user and I don't know what it is or where it comes from (although I Googled > and didn't find anything). Killing the process doesn't seem to do any damage > (firefox still runs), but the next time I start Firefox, the pluginserver.ex > process is back. > > Has anyone else seen this and/or know what it's all about? > > > > I have a guess. Is your system 64 bits? > > This may be a helper process that is meant to allow you to run 32 bit > plugins (such as Adobe Flash). No idea why it takes so much CPU, or why it > is at all running when no plugins are installed. > > Shachar > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
