From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 23:32:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B2616A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D2843D49 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2C7WAw1000153; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:32:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)i2C7WAHr000150; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:32:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:32:10 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Ryan Freeman In-Reply-To: <20040311230605.53d9839b.ryan@slipgate.org> Message-ID: <20040312022746.R21071@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED802E867FD@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> <86llm7hx46.fsf@web.de> <4050E3AC.9080408@mindspring.com> <20040311230605.53d9839b.ryan@slipgate.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like SCHED_4BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:32:23 -0000 On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Ryan Freeman wrote: > well, i have a 1.2ghz duron, 384mb ram and a 4.3gb fujitsu harddrive > running with UDMA66 and a 20gb maxtor drive with UDMA100. curiously, > firefox takes about 10-12 seconds to load. (earlier today it took 20+ > seconds and i was quite shocked). HOWEVER, i ran mozilla 1.6-something > and it took only 3-4 seconds to load! the only excuse i can see for this > is that i compiled firefox on release-5.2 and mozilla after > release-5.2.1(only because of that damn mplayerplug-in, too :/) also > when i compiled firefox i didn't have CPUTYPE=athlon set in > /etc/make.conf, it was compiling with the default pentiumpro it seems. > could that really affect load times that much? Not to pessimize what efficiency improvements you get out of cpu-specific optimizations, but the shorter load times are most likely due to your system's filesystem cache being hard at work. Try rebooting between the startup of each browser (Common libraries will very likely make their way into the cache and throw your results off). Andy > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >