[K12OSN] Sky high load average with FF and CentOS?
Terrell Prude' Jr.
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Mon Aug 25 15:29:32 UTC 2008
Tell me, folks: since David's looking at changing browsers *anyway* and
thus changing the "look and feel" substantially *anyway*, what's bad
about using Konqueror? It already comes with K12LTSP! Works great with
shared memory/libraries, too.
--TP
Lewis Holcroft wrote:
> David,
>
> We are having this FF3 slowness issue also.
>
> We found the workstations that use the vesa driver create much more
> load that those that use other video drivers.
>
> Lewis
>
> On Aug 24, 2008, at 4:26 PM, David Hopkins wrote:
>
>> Thanks! I'll try Opera with some test users (anything else will get
>> me 'shot' by teachers). In the meantime, I have query about k12ltsp
>> repos ... are they down again? yum is failing with a metadata
>> mismatch, and yum clean metadata or yum clean all isn't correcting it.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dave Hopkins
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Terrell Prude' Jr.
>> <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>>> A better word:
>>> Konqueror
>>>
>>> It comes with the distro already, is quite a fine browser, and works
>>> with
>>> the FF plugins. It is my main Internet browser for that reason.
>>>
>>> --TP
>>>
>>> Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> in one word :
>>>> Opera
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM, David Hopkins
>>>> <dahopkins429 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:dahopkins429 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> i tested firefox 3 and it is almos 3 times faster then v2 and
>>>> takes less
>>>>> memory
>>>>
>>>> On my EL5 systems, this has not been the case at all :( As
>>>> mentioned,
>>>> I tested the load that launching each creates on the system (no
>>>> plugins and with plugins) and FF3 just crushes my K12LTSP EL5
>>>> system.
>>>> Doesn't matter if it is a 32bit or 64bit system. I don't know why,
>>>> but v2 performs much much better than v3. Perhaps at some points
>>>> I'll
>>>> try and dig deeper, but right now I just have to have things
>>>> ready for
>>>> the school which starts tomorrow morning at 7:30.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Dave Hopkins
>>>>
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