[ubuntu-us-mi] Firefox on Lucid

Steve Romanow slestak989 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 04:05:51 BST 2010


Would the content type maybe be a factor?  Do mainly text sites bog
down as heavy pages do?   Maybe use noscript and or disable flash to
see if js or flash are problems?

On 4/15/10, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's their use of a db for the cache.  There was some debate over the
>> interaction of the new db on ext3 back in Hardy, IIRC.
>
> I'm not so sure that's the issue.  I checked out the sqlite databases
> and they are relatively small, with the median being under 10KB, the
> mean being about 24M, and the largest db about 32 M.
>
> $ find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -name '*.sqlite' |
> xargs ls -ldSr |
> tr -s ' ' '\t' |
> cut -f 5  > file.csv
> $ echo 'summary(read.csv("file.csv",head=FALSE)) ;' |
> R --no-save -q
>> summary(read.csv("file.csv",head=FALSE)) ;
>        V1
>  Min.   :    2048
>  1st Qu.:    2048
>  Median :    8704
>  Mean   : 2390630
>  3rd Qu.:   38912
>  Max.   :31281152
>>
>
> If it were a db and/or ext3 issue, would I not see a lot of disk I/O
> from the vmstat?  I see the CPU being maxed and virtually no disk I/O.
>  No swapping, either.
>
> Any ideas on how to isolate what the problem is?  Is anyone else
> experiencing this?  If not, then maybe it's something fubared with my
> setup.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
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