From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 19:55:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17C716A41B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [202.89.146.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAA313C43E for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76DC9284E7; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:55:19 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:55:19 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Scott T. Hildreth" Message-ID: <20080131195519.GA68684@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20080131030031.GA40010@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1201794591.73380.173.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <20080131180130.GA67243@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1201804040.73380.188.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1201804040.73380.188.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox on FreeBSD 7/amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:55:20 -0000 On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:27:20PM -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 07:01 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:49:51AM -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:00 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm running the latest version of Firefox on 7-STABLE/amd64 on ULE, > > > > and I'm seeing an huge performance hit when I visit sites with a moderate > > > > amount on Javascript. eg: http://www.xwiki.org/ Scrolling becomes an > > > > excruciating effort on this site. The problem doesn't appear to manifest > > > > on 7-STABLE/i386. > > > > > > It does for me. I am running 7.0-BETA4 & Firefox 2.0.0.11 on i386 > > > and when I went to that page, my browser became "excruciating" slow!! > > > > Ok, this could possibly make it a porting issue. I wonder if any Linux > > users using firefox experience the same difficulty - I just tried the > > page under Windows, and it behaved properly. > > > > What scheduler are you using under 7.0? > > SCHED_4BSD My 7-PRERRELEASE/i386 machine is using SCHED_ULE, and it doesn't seem to stick (as much). Would you be willing to try using SCHED_ULE to see if it improves your user-experience? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.