Flash = high processor usage

davolente · Joined: Oct 04, 2003 Posts: 304 Location: Kent, UK

Anyone know how to forceably reduce the sky-high processor usage when Flash is about? The particular thing I have in mind is a certain music station. It uses a Flash interface in the browser, which knocks processor usage through the roof, with its busy little motions - album cover art moving along, etc; and it's very interactive when skipping tracks, flagging track dislikes, etc. I`ve also tried a stand-alone, dedicated mini browser and that is just as bad. Seems to be a common problem, from what I've read elsewhere. My main machine just about hangs in there but an older PC is very borderline. I've had limited success by reducing priority in task manager but that doesn`t seem a very elegant solution, especially as it only works per session.

goretsky · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:

Hello,

Could it be the result of interaction between your web browser, the Flash player and your security software? Perhaps the latter is trying to scan the incoming stream of data for malware, which is why the CPU utilization is so high. I would expect to see that in the components which make up the security software and not the Flash player, though.

If you have the ability to exclude the process or network stream from being scanned, you could try that and see if it makes any difference.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky