Re: [Hampshire] Gnome and CPU usage

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Author: Stephen Rowles
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Gnome and CPU usage

> I used top to kill the process and the thumbnail changes to the letter "a"
> with double-headed, horizontal and vertical arrows but then the same thing
> happens with the next .ttf file. I killed the gnome-thumbnail process
> again and this seems to have solved the problem as closing then re-opening
> the directory (in file manager) shows the correct thumbnails for font
> files.
>
> So... if you're running Fedora 10 with Gnome, watch out for those two CPU
> "killers".
>


Also watch out for npviewer.bin if you use flash inside firefox, I often
find that chewing 100% of one CPU even when firefox has exited.