From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 23:14:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1061065670 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:14:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991998FC0C for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-22-218.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.22.218]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B0727609; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q6TNE0n3008518; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:14:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:14:00 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Wojciech Puchar Message-Id: <20120730011400.30928261.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <201207290935.q6T9Z5Yn088214@fire.js.berklix.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , FreeBSD questions , Jens Schweikhardt Subject: Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:14:02 -0000 On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:07:21 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > acroread9 is awfully slow, or more accurately it was the PDF I was > > editing for UK government tax return (**.) I recall reading it was > > also awfully slow on MS. I never use it except when I have to (**) > > > true. braindamaged PDFs are the only reason to use this bulky software. Even if no file is opened, the load increases: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 8465 poly 1 115 0 109M 62720K CPU0 0 1:08 87.35% acroread This state is reached in about a minute. Note: No file loaded, it's just the viewer program! > xpdf do everything else - at least 5 times faster I also prefer xpdf, and gv for specific cases. I'm almost sure the PDF viewers of KDE and Gnome are also capable of dealing with the most "extensions" that create braindamaged PDFs. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...