From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Nov 20 16:04:05 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4FCDEFC9D for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:04:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from oceanview.tundraware.com (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailman.tundraware.com", Issuer "mailman.tundraware.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B1FD3F30 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:04:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by oceanview.tundraware.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id vAKG3sGL035422 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:03:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.1 SSD low browser performance To: Kenneth Hatteland , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <34c0a9bc-26f1-2203-eb9e-fc9ea00484de@gmail.com> From: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: <9eaad066-626c-6a30-49d3-cbd4cd214cec@tundraware.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:03:49 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34c0a9bc-26f1-2203-eb9e-fc9ea00484de@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:03:55 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: vAKG3sGL035422 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.899, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, AWL 0.11, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:04:05 -0000 On 11/20/2017 09:22 AM, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: > I have a problem that annoys me and makes my desktop use painful. I have put a rather cheap Kingdian SSD into my box after my HDD seemed slow, but it did not enhance performance that much. It is when I use internet browsers the problem occurs. The browser works slow, freeze very often and video is choppy. It is from time to time impossible to switch between tabs, and graphics load painfully slow. When these things occur, the hard drive light blinks madly. > > When I use the machine with other software it is snappy and responsive. Music is flawless etc. So onlly when  I use firefox, Chromium or Iridium. > > I have been thinking perhaps something about TRIM should be set up ? Or does anyone have other clues what I can do/check ? > > > Kenneth > It's seems doubtful this would be the disk. Browsers work fine even with mechanical drives. I suggest you install htop and watch in one window while you use your browser. You can watch who is using memory, CPU, paging activity, and a lot of other performance related material. Browsers are typically resource pigs and you could simply not have enough memory or cpu to run one.