Gutsy speed

[Derek Broughton]

Tony Arnold wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 
>> 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:-)

Oh, I thought everybody had one at this time of year :-)
 
> 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!

Not really. fwiw I checked memory:

Mem:   1025972k total,   933660k used,    92312k free,        0k buffers
Swap:  3004112k total,   358188k used,  2645924k free,   385268k cached

which seems entirely reasonable.

I never much cared until you started asking...  So I went into Firefox and
turned off Java, reloading tabs at startup, and checking for updates to
Add-ons and search engines.  It restarted in about 5 seconds.  I went back
and turned those back on one at a time - and it _still_ starts in 5
seconds.  So I don't really know what I've changed...  Damn.
-- 
derek