swamped with >100 npviewer.bin processes

[Daniel Corbe]

Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> writes:

> Not sure which list to address this.
>
> I use nspluginwrapper-1.4.4_3 with firefox,
> as per Handbook. Just noticed that I have 174!
> npviewer.bin processes after firefox is closed.
> Is this expected?
>
> The processes consume a large chunk of memory,
> and refuse to disapper. I can kill them one by
> one, but...
>
> The processes are:
>
> $ ps axwwdd | grep npview
> 2123 3 S 0:00.07 |--
> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> --connection
> /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/1295-2/1804289383
> 2124 3 S 0:00.07 |--
> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> --connection
> /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/1295-2/1804289383
> ...
> and a further 142 processes.
>
> Anybody else is seeing this?
> This is a dual core laptop:
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD minky 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #16 r267106: Wed Jun
> 11 11:16:38 BST 2014 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINKY amd64
>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
>
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What do you mean by they refuse to die? 

I've had massive issues in the past with npviewer.  It's directly
related to the linux flash plugin.  

I keep lots of tabs open so I usually end up with a massive amount of
these things running and consuming a very low amount of CPU usage -- and
as you stated -- quite a big chunk of memory too.

Doing a 'killall -9 npviewer.bin' every so often solves the problem for
me.

-Daniel