Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:55:19 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox on FreeBSD 7/amd64 Message-ID: <20080131195519.GA68684@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1201804040.73380.188.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> 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>
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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 <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
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