High CPU - Pandora.com / Flash

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:38 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Not sure if this is related to Ubuntu specifically, but I found that
> using SeaMonkey/FireFox/Chromium to play pandora.com (I use pulseaudio
> from a standalone machine to stream it over to a system with speakers)
> was sucking up all of the cpu on the machine.
>
> Finally figured out that the process that is the culprit is
> 'plugin-container'. Watching in 'top' I found that 'plugin-container'
> (flash related) was eating the cpu. I opened 'System Monitor' and set
> 'plugin-container' to a 'Nice' value of 14 and all of sudden I have most
> of my cpu back. 'plugin-container' ($ top and $ ps e will show you them)
> is still taking up 25% but that's considerably better than 80-90%.
>
> Now I just need work on keeping 'plugin-container' to a nice 'Nice'
> value permanently.
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&source=hp&q=ubuntu+%2Bmozilla+%2B%27plugin-container%27&btnG=Search>

"Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints,
we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside
of the U.S..."

Thus, sorry Gary, can't test it...

-- 
Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu