Delay measuring

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:46 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for a long time now firefox annoys me now and then with second-long
> delay when entering a new URL in the URL-bar.
> 
> I am pretty sure this is some kind of system resource it waits for or
> some other process. Is there any sane way to start an application and
> measure all those wait syscalls to see what resource causes this delay?
> Something like a strace wrapper script or so...
> 
> I hope someone understands what I mean ;)

Sounds like you might have the IPv6 issue other people have mentioned.
See the list archive for how to turn it off.

poc