Gutsy speed

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> It's an Intel Celeron M 520, running at 1.6GHz, a SATA disk (no idea of
>>> specs - LVM and 4 JFS filesystems), and 1GB real memory and 3GB swap. 
>>> It's
>>> always running a lot of cruft :-)  Currently running an Apache server, a
>>> Plone server, a PostGreSQL database, an NX server, two Konquerors with
>>> about a dozen tabs open, an IMAP server, two X sessions, and a partridge
>>> in a pear tree.
>> Well, I'd get rid of the partridge:-)
> 
> Oh, I thought everybody had one at this time of year :-)
>  
>> Seriously, an obvious thing to try is to shut down as much stuff as you
>> can and then see if FF is any quicker. This may or may not be practical!
> 
> Not really. fwiw I checked memory:
> 
> Mem:   1025972k total,   933660k used,    92312k free,        0k buffers
> Swap:  3004112k total,   358188k used,  2645924k free,   385268k cached
> 
> which seems entirely reasonable.
> 
> I never much cared until you started asking...  So I went into Firefox and
> turned off Java, reloading tabs at startup, and checking for updates to
> Add-ons and search engines.  It restarted in about 5 seconds.  I went back
> and turned those back on one at a time - and it _still_ starts in 5
> seconds.  So I don't really know what I've changed...  Damn.

Yes, very odd. MAybe one of the tabs was trying to reach a very slow
site or one that was unreachable? On the other hand if the problem is
fixed ...

Regards,
Tony.
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