Question
Flash Performance issues
There is a serious performance bug in flash player 9. The
performance issues come to light when many web browser windows are
open with a flash animation in them and the system slows down
significantly.
The reason for the performance issues is that Flash player is generating continuous page faults. For those who don't know what a page fault is; when a program needs to access an item from the system memory, sometimes the item doesn't exist in physical memory because it has been swapped out to virtual memory and is stored in a paging file on the hard disk. When this is the case a page fault occurs and the item is read from the paging file on the disk into physical memory. Each instance of flash player is generating between 80 and 300 page faults per second, making very inefficient use of system resources and causing the system to be very sluggish when many flash animations are open. even the small flash advertisment on msn messenger generates 80 page faults/sec.
The page fault usage can be observed in the Windows Task manager: click view menu -> select columns. Add the "PF delta" and the "Page Faults" Columns to the task manager and sort the list by PF delta. You will observe page faults occurring continuously in applications with flash.
Its a pretty serious bug
The reason for the performance issues is that Flash player is generating continuous page faults. For those who don't know what a page fault is; when a program needs to access an item from the system memory, sometimes the item doesn't exist in physical memory because it has been swapped out to virtual memory and is stored in a paging file on the hard disk. When this is the case a page fault occurs and the item is read from the paging file on the disk into physical memory. Each instance of flash player is generating between 80 and 300 page faults per second, making very inefficient use of system resources and causing the system to be very sluggish when many flash animations are open. even the small flash advertisment on msn messenger generates 80 page faults/sec.
The page fault usage can be observed in the Windows Task manager: click view menu -> select columns. Add the "PF delta" and the "Page Faults" Columns to the task manager and sort the list by PF delta. You will observe page faults occurring continuously in applications with flash.
Its a pretty serious bug
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