why is fedora/npviewer.bin crippling my system?

[Jeff Voskamp]

Chris G wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:26:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   
>>   it's always been bad but now it's gotten worse -- over the last few
>> weeks, the combination of firefox and npviewer.bin is just crushing my
>> machine in terms of response.
>>
>>   "top" shows that the combo of those two programs is regularly
>> chewing up from 100 to 150 per cent of my CPU (if not more).  is this
>> normal?  is this what others are seeing?  because if firefox 3 turns
>> out to be the same kind of processor hog, it's going to be time to
>> dump firefox for good.
>>
>>     
> "100 to 150 per cent of my CPU", doesn't make a lot of sense, are you
> sure it means what you think it means?
>   
It makes sense if you have hyperthreading or a multi-core system.
Top gives processor percentages in terms of a single processor, so on a 
busy multicore machine you can hit 300-400% CPU.

Jeff Voskamp