Flash player works only for a while

[gruntly-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Theodore Ruegsegger)]

Tom and a few others have asked a question I should have anticipated:
> Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Kubuntu?

I'm running 32-bit on both machines where I've observed the problem.

> I don't see this problem on a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 machine.

I went from 8.04 Hardy straight to 9.04 Jaunty with only a brief look
at 8.10 Intrepid. It's probably safe to say I didn't have the problem
before.

Tom offered a possible solution:
> Near the end of the first Ubuntu Forum thread that Google turned up was a
> script someone wrote to lower the priority of npviewer.bin and kill it after
> it has been running for a while. I guess that's one way to hack around the
> problem.
>
> I've just been manually killing the process and restarting. I've resigned to
> the fact that Flash is a bad net citizen, and use it as little as possible.

I can't find any such process with ps; perhaps that's just for 64-bit systems.

I also noticed something surprising: my Firefox (Shiretoko) has been
running all night while I've been asleep, yet a flash file played just
fine this morning. So perhaps it's not just how long Firefox has been
running, but something else that's leaking resources.

Or who knows, perhaps the latest Ubuntu update quietly fixed the
problem; I'll believe that if I can still play flash all day.

But I agree, Flash (and its vendor) could behave better.

Ted