Might be off-topic, however, I wonder if anyone observed the same strange side-effects.

I run Debian/Linux, BOINC 5.4.9, Mozilla Firefox and the new Flash Player 9 beta from Macromedia/Adobe. When science-applications are running within BOINC and when I open a flash-splattered webpage inside Firefox, the Browser locks up. Completly. It took me quite a while to figure out that when I start the BOINC-manager the lockup vanishes for a second or so, but then locks up again. If I stop all science-apps the browser suddenly works fine and all those pesky flashy things start working until I resume computation.

First I tought that this is a load-related issue and that Flash might need lots of CPU-time, but other types of load (means: other CPU-intense applications) do not provoke this behaviour.

This did not happen with the old version of the Flash Player 7 (?).

I haven't investigated too much yet, I just wanted to ask if other Linux-users observed the same behaviour. Since the problem started with FP9, I'd blame Adobe for this, but there must be some kind of side-effect which only relates to BOINC. I just want to know why those two totally different applications which don't share any resources except CPU and memory don't work together (means they're not sharing the sound-board or use dodgy IPC-/CORBA-communication).

Ideas, anyone?

Merry belated christmas, happy new year,
Alex.

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"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent
millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.