One of many problems.

[gschaefr at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com>
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 16:45:01 +0000
> gschaefr at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > When I run System Monitor, it shows 99 percent CPU use, 90 percent
> > RAM use, and my 3 GB swap RAM usage gradually climbs to 90 percent,
> > after watching it for 5 minutes or so. When I look at processes, the only
> > process using resources besides the System Monitor itself is "gnash",
> > which is using all remaining CPU. My question is, what is "gnash"? And
> > what does it do for (TO?) me? When I look behind the main Firefox
> > window, there is some kind of player running in a small window behind.
> > It seems to be related to delivering video from BBC News, but no video
> > ever displays in the main window, or anywhere else. What's going on?
> > 
> 
> Gnash is a free flash player.
> Firefox 2.x has a fairly famous memory leak, wherein long sessions with it make 
> it use up more memory.
> 
> I had this problem for a while, it dissapeared when I did a number of updates, 
> among them to Firefox 3b and (possibly) to another flash player.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Avi Greenbury
> 
Thanks for that info. I used to keep my flash player up-to-date, but since
upgrading Firefox several times, each time I try to update the flash player,
via some "button" within Firefox, it fails to update, and I don't know how to
do it otherwise. If I could, I would. Gnash must have slipped in during one
of these unsuccessful attempts. I wouldn't know how to install it myself.

Jerry