On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole > lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the > case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume it's > actually 'container', but the column's too small for the last letter) > using anything from 15-20 %CPU, and so I'm thinking it's the culprit. I > could just kill it and see what else breaks :) But does anyone know who > or what owns it, or how I can find out?
Yes, as Brian says is the wrapper for mozilla based plugins: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/What%20is%20plugin-container Killing firefox/icewasel should stop it or just exiting from a web page that loads the flash player plugin should also reduce the amount of cpu cycles that uses. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.29.15.57...@gmail.com
