The Unhappy Me thread - Page 19

Xyzzy · 2012-03-25, 14:01

We have learned a lot here:

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1

Uncwilly · 2012-04-13, 00:35

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402785,00.asp

petrw1 · 2012-04-13, 03:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402785,00.asp

My first and still my favorite PC...it allowed so much "tinkering".

xilman · 2012-04-14, 16:36

Ok, so I've finally lost patience with the browser installed as standard on Linux boxes.

It's notorious for not playing well with the Nvidia drivers, and don't even think of having hardware acceleration turned on. After just too many screen corruptions, process run-aways (npviewer.bin frequently pegs at 99% or more) and total lock-ups I've installed Chrome on both machines where I need the Nvidia drivers to be able to run CUDA applications.

The up-side is that the dual-4-core Xeon is now running the latest msieve with both CUDA and MPI.

Uncwilly · 2012-04-15, 01:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

I've installed Chrome on both machines where I need the Nvidia drivers to be able to run CUDA applications.

Opera is good stuff.

jrk · 2012-04-15, 02:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

Ok, so I've finally lost patience with the browser installed as standard on Linux boxes.

It's notorious for not playing well with the Nvidia drivers, and don't even think of having hardware acceleration turned on. After just too many screen corruptions, process run-aways (npviewer.bin frequently pegs at 99% or more) and total lock-ups I've installed Chrome on both machines where I need the Nvidia drivers to be able to run CUDA applications.

What are you using npviewer.bin for?

Batalov · 2012-04-15, 02:53

npviewer.bin is the known runaway child: "netscape plugin viewer".
Use adblock+ ?

jrk · 2012-04-15, 03:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batalov

npviewer.bin is the known runaway child: "netscape plugin viewer".
Use adblock+ ?

Is that something included in Firefox?

I am using 64bit SeaMonkey and do not have any file called npviewer on my system. I also use 64bit Flash with hardware acceleration enabled for video playback and it always works just fine with the nvidia driver. *shrugs*

But yes I do second the recommendation for adblock plus. Definitely.

xilman · 2012-04-15, 07:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batalov

npviewer.bin is the known runaway child: "netscape plugin viewer".
Use adblock+ ?

Yes, that's the plugin.

Batalov · 2012-04-19, 17:37

... I switched to using chrome (silly me, I thought, Paul might be on to something) -- and it doesn't seem to be much better resourcewise. In top, it shows 1% activity which over a few days ran up to 66 minutes of CPU which were surely stolen from some other, more important processes.

Killed it mercilessly. Now, need to search for a less hoggy hog, again.

xilman · 2012-04-19, 18:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batalov

... I switched to using chrome (silly me, I thought, Paul might be on to something) -- and it doesn't seem to be much better resourcewise. In top, it shows 1% activity which over a few days ran up to 66 minutes of CPU which were surely stolen from some other, more important processes.

Killed it mercilessly. Now, need to search for a less hoggy hog, again.

Chrome is far from perfect and I wouldn't recommend it over anything other than Firefux. The latter can take 100-\epsilon % of a cpu-core, and frequently did in my experience.

If you come across a better browser please let me know.

2012-04-14, 16:36	#202
xilman Bamboozled! "𒉺𒌌𒇷𒆷𒀭" May 2003 Down not across 3×5×719 Posts	Firefux Ok, so I've finally lost patience with the browser installed as standard on Linux boxes. It's notorious for not playing well with the Nvidia drivers, and don't even think of having hardware acceleration turned on. After just too many screen corruptions, process run-aways (npviewer.bin frequently pegs at 99% or more) and total lock-ups I've installed Chrome on both machines where I need the Nvidia drivers to be able to run CUDA applications. The up-side is that the dual-4-core Xeon is now running the latest msieve with both CUDA and MPI.

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2012-03-25, 14:01	#199
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2012-04-13, 00:35	#200
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2012-04-15, 02:53	#205
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2012-04-19, 17:37	#208
Batalov "Serge" Mar 2008 Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2 9,497 Posts	... I switched to using chrome (silly me, I thought, Paul might be on to something) -- and it doesn't seem to be much better resourcewise. In top, it shows 1% activity which over a few days ran up to 66 minutes of CPU which were surely stolen from some other, more important processes. Killed it mercilessly. Now, need to search for a less hoggy hog, again.