Flash plug-in : CPU salesman ?!

[Frank McCormick]

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On Tue, 16 May 2006 11:15:15 +1000
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 02:23:48 +0200
> Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > For example when viewing this site : www.europe1.fr CPU usage varies
> > between around 70% (at best) and shows spikes at 100% ! I know, that's
> > ridiculous, laughable... if it weren't true ! :-/ :o(((((
> > If I strip the ad banners to get rid of some of the flash animations, it
> > gets a tad better, but still averages 65+ % ! :-O
> > I use Epiphany but Firefox yields the same results.
> 
> OK - 2 Ghz Celeron, 512MB RAM. 
> 
> The site  www.europe1.fr starts off using up to 90% CPU, then after a few
> seconds it settles down to around 10-12%. I suspect that the "loading"
> period is where the CPU gets hit, but I'm on adsl2+ so here it lasts only
> a few seconds. I shudder to think what this site would do on a slow
> connection....
> 


  Brings my 450 mhz Pentium III /w 512mb to it's knees on a 2.4 mbs connection!!!
  Flash city is right.

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Cheers

Frank

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