Re: Flash ads sucking all my CPU

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 00:46 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hello Lee,
> 
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to prevent stupid Flash ads from eating 40, 50, 100% of
> > my CPU?  This is a big problem as there's no easy way to stop them
> > (unchecking "Play" and "Loop" don't do anything).
> 
> Uninstalling the Flash plugin would be one approach worth to consider...
> ;-)
> 

This has been my solution in the past but I'm getting annoyed to the
point where I want to fix it or at least find out what the problem is.

> > I don't have this problem on that other OS.
> 
> Unfortunately this is a problem specific to the Linux Flashplugin. Since 
> it's closed source, there's nothing we can do about it.
> 

I'm not so sure.  Can't we run the flash plugin in its own thread and
make it the lowest priority thread?  The OS provides lots of mechanisms
for managing process priority.

> That said, you may want to use a Flash click-to-play approach. Read the 
> mail I sent in reply to Ryan's question today for instructions.
> 

OK, I'll look into this.  BTW, do you know what the status of the GPL'ed
Flash plugin is?

Lee