m$ now has linux moonlight installer, but what a memory hog.

[David W. Hodgins]

While reading an article about m$ finally disabling autorun,
I followed some links which led to a site requiring moonlight.

While the site was loading, my system slowed to a crawl. Checking
with htop showed the swap file use was growing. I have 2 GB of ram,
but had 1 GB used by VirtualBox. I shutdown the VirtualBox guest,
and continued watching htop, expecting opera to crash.

To my surprise, a pop-up showed saying I needed a media pack codec
to view the site. I selected install, expecting it to fail, as
I'm running linux. It didn't. It installed
~/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight/silverlight-media-pack-linux-x86-16-1.so
and then I was able to play the video.

Caution. The following site will cause operapluginwrapper memory
usage to be about 1 GB, but does eventually work.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[RavanH]

Post by David W. Hodgins
While reading an article about m$ finally disabling autorun,
I followed some links which led to a site requiring moonlight.
While the site was loading, my system slowed to a crawl.  Checking
with htop showed the swap file use was growing. I have 2 GB of ram,
but had 1 GB used by VirtualBox.  I shutdown the VirtualBox guest,
and continued watching htop, expecting opera to crash.
To my surprise, a pop-up showed saying I needed a media pack codec
to view the site.  I selected install, expecting it to fail, as
I'm running linux.  It didn't.  It installed
~/.mozilla/plugins/moonlight/silverlight-media-pack-linux-x86-16-1.so
and then I was able to play the video.
Caution.  The following site will cause operapluginwrapper memory
usage to be about 1 GB, but does eventually work.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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So I suppose you have Moonlight installed via a repository? Sadly not
everyone has moonlight in his/her repos and since Opera does not
handle the Firefox of Chrome user installation scripts...

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by RavanH

Post by David W. Hodgins
Caution. The following site will cause operapluginwrapper memory
usage to be about 1 GB, but does eventually work.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx

So I suppose you have Moonlight installed via a repository? Sadly not
everyone has moonlight in his/her repos and since Opera does not
handle the Firefox of Chrome user installation scripts...

Before going to the above link, I did have an old copy of moonlight
installed, but not from a repository.

Previously, I had used firefox to install moonlight under
~/.mozilla/firefox/2sm46teg.default/extensions, which I then
moved to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so that opera, and other
users could find it.

When I went to the above link, it detected that I needed a newer
version, and used a pop-up to ask if I wanted it installed. I
selected yes, and it installed it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Note that it did this with opera. I didn't have to use firefox
to install the plugin. Microsoft has actually made it easy for
for opera users to install moonlight, provided you have a gig
of ram free, and some patience.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[RavanH]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by RavanH

Post by David W. Hodgins
Caution.  The following site will cause operapluginwrapper memory
usage to be about 1 GB, but does eventually work.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx

So I suppose you have Moonlight installed via a repository? Sadly not
everyone has moonlight in his/her repos and since Opera does not
handle the Firefox of Chrome user installation scripts...

Before going to the above link, I did have an old copy of moonlight
installed, but not from a repository.
Previously, I had used firefox to install moonlight under
~/.mozilla/firefox/2sm46teg.default/extensions, which I then
moved to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so that opera, and other
users could find it.
When I went to the above link, it detected that I needed a newer
version, and used a pop-up to ask if I wanted it installed.  I
selected yes, and it installed it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/
Note that it did this with opera.  I didn't have to use firefox
to install the plugin.  Microsoft has actually made it easy for
for opera users to install moonlight, provided you have a gig
of ram free, and some patience.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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tried a similar approach (without any initial moonlight installed) and
you are right, after a really long time the video starts playing....
but the memory keeps growing even after closing the tab... wonder why.
in FF there is no problem like htat..

[RavanH]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by RavanH

Post by David W. Hodgins
Caution.  The following site will cause operapluginwrapper memory
usage to be about 1 GB, but does eventually work.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx

So I suppose you have Moonlight installed via a repository? Sadly not
everyone has moonlight in his/her repos and since Opera does not
handle the Firefox of Chrome user installation scripts...

Before going to the above link, I did have an old copy of moonlight
installed, but not from a repository.
Previously, I had used firefox to install moonlight under
~/.mozilla/firefox/2sm46teg.default/extensions, which I then
moved to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so that opera, and other
users could find it.
When I went to the above link, it detected that I needed a newer
version, and used a pop-up to ask if I wanted it installed.  I
selected yes, and it installed it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/
Note that it did this with opera.  I didn't have to use firefox
to install the plugin.  Microsoft has actually made it easy for
for opera users to install moonlight, provided you have a gig
of ram free, and some patience.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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In fact, after closing the tab with the M$ silverlight movie and
writing that previous message, Opera memory usage sprialed so heavily
out of control that I could not even close Opera anymore and the
complete system became so unresponsive that I had to do a hard reboot :
( ... Smells like a huge memory leak bug.

The whole thing reminded me so much of my old M$ using days that I
would say they have brought more than a Moonlight installer to Linux:
they have brought the whole M$ experience with it ;-)

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by RavanH
In fact, after closing the tab with the M$ silverlight movie and
writing that previous message, Opera memory usage sprialed so heavily
out of control that I could not even close Opera anymore and the
( ... Smells like a huge memory leak bug.

How much ram do you have? On my system, total opera memory usage
after viewing the moonlight video was stable at around 1200MB.

Post by RavanH
The whole thing reminded me so much of my old M$ using days that I
they have brought the whole M$ experience with it ;-)

Agreed! :-)

Regards, Dave Hodgins