[K12OSN] Sky high load average with FF and CentOS?

[Terrell Prude' Jr.]

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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