[X2go-user] Flash animation brings x2go to a near halt

[Gerry Reno]

On 12/22/2010 01:56 AM, John Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>> Full frame-rate video is one of the things that remote display
>> technologies are not very good at.  Imagine the volume of data that is
>> trying to be pushed across the wire.
>>     
> No, that is not the problem. I can actually watch a small video over
> x2go without bringing the system to its knees (i.e., the video plays
> without the system freezing or becoming unresponsive).
>
> Actually, I probably should not call the universe scale thing a flash
> animation, since it really just sits there unless you drag the slider.
> You should check it out before you respond to my post. The problem
> with that flash program is that even when you are NOT dragging the
> slider, so the display is mostly static, the system becomes
> unresponsive, taking tens of seconds just to respond to a mouse click
> on the window close button.
>
>   

What does 'top' on the Linux box say when you see this slowdown?  It
sounds like the browser is consuming all the CPU leaving little for x2go
or other processes.  And in that case it's probably a misbehaving flash
plugin causing the problem.

Regards,
Gerry