Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:58:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Benjamin Close wrote: >> >>>> After more testing, the lag problem is caused by the use of firefox. >>>> Once I try to open a heavy webpage, both firefox and Xorg become slow, >>>> the rest is fine. By the "rest" I mean: audacious playing mp3s, wget and >>>> ncftp downloading huge (100MB) files, compiling wine and aMule running. >>>> >>>> >>> I find the lag occuring with the 4BSD scheduler as well. dailytech.com is >>> a particularly good site at lagging the system (though a great website). >>> Perhaps this isn't scheduler related? >>> > > I don't think its scheduler related, last Jeff's changes helped a bit > the things with ULE but I also noticed the lag with 4BSD. > > >> I assume you checked whether you are touching swap. >> >> > > In my case, the swap is never used: > > Mem: 272M Active, 354M Inact, 157M Wired, 28M Cache, 110M Buf, 178M Free > Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free > > Your problem is most likely Flash/Javascript based (I'm basing my theory on the fact that there's a lot of Ajax related stuff on the site). No matter what OS you have, if a website's slow (and it's not because you don't have OpenGL support in your X-server), slowness will remain constant. It's just the way unfortunately that browsers are designed. NoScript combined with Adblock will help quite a bit though for whitelisting domains and javascript/flash content. -GarrettReceived on Sat Oct 06 2007 - 16:11:06 UTC
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