Re: Slow web browsing?
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote:
> ...
>> I'm running stable with some stuff off backports.org, like Firefox and
>> Thunderbird.
>>
>> I can't pin down exactly what caused the problem, I've installed karm
>> and flashplayer-nonfree lately too, I've removed flashplayer and that
>> hasn't fixed the problem.
>>
>> Now some web pages download really slowly - including www.debian.org!
>> The behavior goes something like this: I browse to that address and
>> Firefox (or Mozilla or Evolution, they all behave the same way for a
>> given web site, hence I suspect a library problem) contacts the server,
>> and starts transferring data, and displays the page incrementally in
>> teeny-tiny bits, about one graphic per second and up to 10 (wow, 10!)
>> words a second. Slowly, slowly the web page will be displayed
>> (rendered?) and eventually I'll get the page.
>
> what results do you get using wget for the same sites?
Now that is weird - wget www.debian.org downloads the site at about
300B/s (yes, bytes per second) Am I missing something?
But if I start my VM and load XP debian.org comes down in about 2
seconds still.
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Greg Vickers
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