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Re: Mozilla 1.2.1 is slooooow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Jan 14 11:58:52 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:58:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, <release-team@MIT.EDU>
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This confirms my early comments to release-team, Bill. Remember my
warning about the Sun version's astonishing slowness? I was not
exaggerating. If echoing this local doesn't improve the speed drastically
we have a problem; speed is genuinely impairing usage.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Thomas H. Grayson wrote:
> I've started using Mozilla 1.2.1 on Athena as an experiment. It works,
> but it is frightfully slow, and not just to load out of a locker, which
> I'd expect. I can see in my xload window that the load average is way
> up, and top shows me consuming 25-40% of the CPU on a Sun Blade 100 just
> typing this e-mail. There's a noticeable lag at some points just
> echoing characters. Screen refreshes after resizing windows are also
> noticeably sluggish. Sometimes this causes Mozilla to misjudge where I
> released the mouse on a resize, so it will sometimes resize the window
> to where the mouse is a second or so after I released the button.
> Something that might matter is that I haven't logged out of this machine
> since Dec. 23. However, I haven't noticed other problems. This machine
> is running Athena 9.1.18.
>
> Tom
>
>
