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

[Lewis Holcroft]

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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