Gutsy speed

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:58 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>>> Yes, it takes me an absolute minimum of 20 seconds.
>>>> 20 seconds to launch firefox? Of course counting the time to open 100
>>>> tabs doesn't count as ff startup time ...
>>> I just timed it - 21 seconds to first show an _incomplete_ firefox
>>> window, and 3 more to actually paint the only tab (which was admittedly
>>> an Internet page - maybe if I had just a local page open when I closed it
>>> it would be faster, but it looks like not less than 20 seconds).
>> That seems incredibly slow! My system takes a couple of seconds to
>> produce  a full tab. My home page is iGoogle.
>>
>> What sort of processor and disk are you using and how much memory do you
>> have? And do you have anything else much running at the same time?
> 
> It's an Intel Celeron M 520, running at 1.6GHz, a SATA disk (no idea of
> specs - LVM and 4 JFS filesystems), and 1GB real memory and 3GB swap.  It's
> always running a lot of cruft :-)  Currently running an Apache server, a
> Plone server, a PostGreSQL database, an NX server, two Konquerors with
> about a dozen tabs open, an IMAP server, two X sessions, and a partridge in
> a pear tree. 

Well, I'd get rid of the partridge:-)

Seriously, an obvious thing to try is to shut down as much stuff as you
can and then see if FF is any quicker. This may or may not be practical!

It might also be interesting to see how much memory you have available
and how much swap is being used.

Regards,
Tony.
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