Re: Mozilla on sparc
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote:
> > > Mozilla is slow, but same as netscape under solaris
> >
> > My Mozilla is not just slow. Image you click on something (not
> > necessarily in the web, but also the task buttons). Then you _hear_
> > something is happening, but... then you have to wait about 30-60 seconds
> > to _see_ what it's doing. That's not really usable...
>
> That is what is happening to me too.
>
> I telnet to the Sparc box, start the program, let it load the start page
> and then move to another virtual desktop. When I get back to the
> original virtual desktop the mozilla window takes minutes to refresh.
> Same thing with Netscape. Sometimes it takes a while to happen, visit a
> couple of pages with images and you will be able to reproduce it.
>
> If I do then a netstat, the send queue on the Sparc side of the
> conection to the X display (I only use a remote window) is big (> 40k).
> And it takes forever to drain. When it does drain the window starts to
> show but for a simple page it might take ten or fifteen minutes before
> that happens. Meanwhile an xclock running on the Sparc is changing the
> display every second without any problem and the send queue is always
> empty.
>
> It might be a kernel problem. Obviously Netscape is working fine and
> does know how to redraw itself, but for some reason the data gets stuck
> at the TCP connection and does not go out or does really slow. Since
> xclock works I think the problem might be related to the amount of
> information Netscape tries to send. I only have 64M of memory, but I
> don't think that is the problem. It might be the network card too ...
>
> Janice, are you using the kernel 2.2.18pre21?
>
> Eduardo.
I'm using kernel 2.2.19pre9 and have 192 MB RAM. I still wonder if it
was my X compile or not. The compile went well, X works great. The only
thing that's not ok is this browser. No other program changed its
behavior. *shrugs*
Janine
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