[wplug] Mozilla and load

[Erika Rice]

I definetly have seen Firebird acting very sluggish at times.  One thing that
really helped me was disabling the tab preferences extension if you have that
installed.  

Erika Rice


--- Kuzman Ganchev <kuzman at sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> 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
> 
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