Firefox on FreeBSD 7/amd64

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:07 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:

> 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:
> > > 
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> > > 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.
> 


   Well on my home server, running BETA3 & 2.0.0.11, the page works
fine. 
   It is also using the SCHED_4BSD.

 

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> > Cheers.