FLASH eats so much RAM?anyway out

nooralain · 04-28-2012, 08:16 AM

is there anyway to decrease the amount to atleast some extent coz on viewing just two youtube videos in my centos

RAM USAge goes from 450 to 870

wat fuck???

i know adobe has stopped flash player production for linux

bt i believe some professionals can solve the matter ??

snowday · 04-28-2012, 08:22 AM

According to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashp...ech-specs.html the required minimum RAM for Flash Player in Linux is 512mb RAM plus 128mb graphics memory. Your numbers seem normal to me.

Adobe Flash Player is proprietary "closed source" software. The only "professionals [who] can solve the matter" are employed by Adobe.

273 · 04-28-2012, 09:07 AM

You could see whether the videos are available in HTML5, that may be better for you.

snowday · 04-28-2012, 09:08 AM

Another option is to use Minitube or to download the video to your hard drive (if such is legal) and watch with your favorite movie player.

nooralain · 04-28-2012, 10:36 AM

HMm i get it closed source

I dint get the html5 part youtube uses flash player to view its videos

no relation of using html here??

minitube will also of ourse use flash..

Its just that flash support for linux is lacking
thats why linux uses so much of RAM

in windows its not the case......

273 · 04-28-2012, 10:50 AM

The HTML5 youtube videos do not use Flash, they are encoded in WebM or h.234 (not sure which) and are supported by modern browsers without any plugins.
However, many videos are not available in HTML5 and for me the HTML5 videos don't play in Firefox correctly. But your experience may be different so it's worth trying.

nooralain · 04-28-2012, 11:10 AM

got a youtube html5 trial

needa see how that works

273 · 04-28-2012, 11:17 AM

Sorry, no idea how to work around that. Why would you be logged in as root and browsing the web anyhow?
Edit: Personally I use Chromium rather than Google Chrome as a second browser for viewing HTML5 video and things.

Peter Liu · 05-02-2012, 10:53 AM

maybe the program running in the flash plugin consumes your memory.