From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 20:02:39 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 EFB4316A419 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:02:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7AE13C43E for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:02:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0VK7QLK067557; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:07:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0VK7QbM067556; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:07:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) X-Authentication-Warning: scotth.emsphone.com: shildret set sender to shildreth@allantgroup.com using -f From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Jonathan Chen In-Reply-To: <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> <20080131195519.GA68684@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:07:26 -0600 Message-Id: <1201810046.73380.191.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port 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 Reply-To: shildreth@allantgroup.com 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 20:02:40 -0000 On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 08:55 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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? Sure. I don't have time at work, but I will change it on my home server(basically same setup) tonight. > > Cheers.