Adobe Reader plugin causes massive CPU usage in SuSE9.1

3 Oct 2004

      Hi All,

I have seen that the CPU usage on my SuSE9.1 machine skyrockets
whenever the pdf plugin is loaded for Mozilla.

To reproduce this, just go to any website and load a pdf within
Mozilla via the plugin method. Run 'top' or 'xosview' and notice the
CPU usage.

BTW, this only happens for the plugin - If I save the pdf and invoke
from a shell, I don't see the same CPU hogging.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround/fix for this for SuSE9.1?

Packages:
acroread-5.09-4.2
mozilla-1.7.2-9.1

TIA.

Pete

az_road runner