Firefox on FreeBSD 7/amd64

[Jonathan Chen]

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 at chen.org.nz>
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