Konqueror vs Firefox

[David Boles]

Nathan Grennan wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>> You are going to have explain the logic for this one for me to 
>> understand.
>>
>> "Excessive fsync during a kernel compile causes Firefox 3 become
>> completely unresponsive till the fsyncs are complete. In some cases if
>> something else i/o intensive is going on Firefox 3 will freeze till the
>> other i/o has completely finished. If it gets really really bad other
>> applications start freezing."
>>
>> You were doing something as intensive as compiling a kernel and Firefox
>> became "unresponsive" and that is Firefox's fault?
>>
>  It is about perspective. From one perspective it is Firefox 3's fault, 
> in another it is the ext3 code's fault.
> 
>  In the first perspective Firefox 2 and Firefox 3.0b2 don't do it, but 
> Firefox 3.0b3 and later do. In general I would say it might even be fine 
> for Firefox to do one fsync per page, but it seems to do like eight back 
> to back. Which in my book is excessive. Maybe there is a good reason for 
> it, maybe it can be improved. I don't claim to know much about Firefox 
> 3's code, but I can give the evidence to the programmers and let them 
> sort it out.
> 
>  In the second perspective it is more of a problem with ext3 code. It 
> doesn't handle fsyncs that well when it comes to responsiveness. I do 
> plan to take this up with the maintainers of the ext3 code. If I can't 
> get them to fix this to my satisfaction I will switch to another 
> filesystem, and maybe another distribution that supports that filesystem 
> well.


Okay. Still trying to understand this.

Is the 'fsync' problem, the differences for you, with the same page? I ask 
because so many pages are so very active today. If it is a page, or 
several? If you would like I would try them from here.

The page, http://www.news.com.au/, that was in the beginning of this 
thread, is in IMO a pig of ads and Flash. And without the 'protection' of 
the two extensions that I mentioned it did bog down my Firefox for a 
second or two. Somewhat but not much. But nowhere near as the OP, and 
others, talked about in their posts.

I honestly do *not* see the halts that you, and others, nor the other 
things many are writing about here. And this was using Firefox 3.0bpre5.

I am puzzled. Unless it could be differences in Internet access or 
differences in hardware perhaps? Or a combination of differences in both?
-- 


   David