I use strace to trace syscalls of `/opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so` and found many errors like this: {{{ madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- madvise(0xdf20000, 3424256, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- }}} Any ideas? Thanks in advance :) On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2011 22:35:39 Einux wrote: > > Adobe-flash becomes quite slow in my laptop after I updated world(or > maybe I > > reconfigured kernel options) several days ago. I've made a lot of > > modifications, so I'm not sure exactly which action leads to the > malfunction > > of adobe-flash. > > adobe flash is just slow with composite. And its performance differs > greatly > between minor versions. > > -- Best Regards, Einux