Problem Report: Severe memory leak in Flash Player 9.0

Summary
Flash player 9.0 is prone to a severe memory leak when
playing SWF files produced by Captivate 1 containing full-motion
recordings.
Versions affected
The problem reproduces with Flash player 9.0 (Flash9.ocx,
Version 9.0.16.0) hosted in either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla
Firefox 1.5 on a Windows XP SP2 system.
The problem does not reproduce with Flash player 8.0
(Flash8.ocx, Version 8.0.22.0) in the same environment.
Description
After a few minutes playing a SWF file produced by Captivate
1 containing a full-motion recording recorded with Captivate 1, the
host browser ends up using more than a gigabyte of memory, and the
playback of the movie slows down to a halt, together with
responsiveness of the whole system.
Impact
Our organization develops E-learning content with Captivate 1
for various customers, mostly Fortune 100 companies.
This bug severely limits our ability to deliver content to
our customers.
Steps to reproduce
1. Using Captivate 1.01.1418, create a “blank
movie” with default settings.
2. Use the “Record” button and begin recording a
full-motion movie for about 2-4 minutes. For the purposes of this
bug, it is enough to record a user typing random text in a Notepad
window resized to fit in the default 800x600 window.
3. After recording the full-motion movie, publish the
Captivate movie as a “Flash (SWF)” movie, using default
settings (making sure that the “export HTML” checkbox
is selected).
4. Open the published movie’s HTML file with a host
browser, making sure that the browser is using the Flash 9.0
player.
5. While the movie is playing, watch the memory usage of the
browser process using Windows Task Manager, and you will see that
the values of the “Mem Usage” and “VM Size”
counters keep increasing until the system becomes unusable.

Also see:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid =1249396&enterthread=y
Flash is generating around 300 page faults per second per
flash animation
Performance
issues: page faulting
Flash is also generating around 300 page faults per second.
This can be observed by following the instructions in the link
above for displaying page faults in the system task manager.

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