Mozilla slow/choppy in FC3

[Norman Gaywood]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:38:20AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:25:18PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Has anyone else noticed Mozilla being slower in FC3 than in FC1?  I see 
> > problems especially when selecting text and copy/paste.  Others have 
> > noticed the composer window hanging for a few seconds regularly.  We're 
> > using a shared/stock mozilla 1.7.5 installation on a NFS drive.  Perhaps 
> > that has something to do with it?
> 
> There is something odd about running applications from an NFS mounted
> drive with the 2.6 kernels. Some applications cause the system to slow
> down and become 'choppy' as you describe. But only some applications.

Oops, forgot to ask. Is the system you are running mozilla on running
the SMP kernel? The problem I have seen seems to only happen with the
SMP kernel.

> I have not quite nailed the problem yet but I did report this bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=145401
> 
> The bug is called "slowdown when running programs from NFS mount".
 

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