[wplug] Mozilla and load

[Kuzman Ganchev]

I'm well aware that Mozilla is a big resource hog, but it seems to be
a little unreasonable at this point. The debian packaged mozilla is
very sluggish, even in general but especially when complicated pages
are involved (e.g. mapquest). I downloaded the latest Firebird build
(not packaged), and it feels a little faster, but not by much. An
uptime while getting a page with some images showed load average of
above 1.8!! 

I have a few questions:

Has anyone else experienced this? Did I just not notice while I was in
school? Could it be a problem of the processor doing what the video
card should really be doing?

Is it normal for XFree86 to increase processor useage when Mozilla is
running?

Can anyone suggest a reasonably fast browser? I used to use w3m almost
exclusively, but that has no javascript support. 

Kuzman

PS: a few lines of top:

 17:12:02 up  5:17,  6 users,  load average: 1.81, 0.84, 0.43
68 processes: 66 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  58.0% user,  40.0% system,   0.0% nice,   2.0% idle
Mem:    312820K total,   301728K used,    11092K free,    15312K buffers
Swap:   498952K total,      224K used,   498728K free,   116664K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  447 root      17 -10 88504  82M  2520 S <  57.4 26.8   8:47 XFree86
  829 kuzman    13   0 29476  28M 14776 R    36.4  9.4  12:51 MozillaFirebird
 1097 kuzman    17   0   940  940   740 R     2.7  0.3   0:00 top
 1093 kuzman     9   0  1804 1780  1580 S     0.3  0.5   0:00 sshd