Ubuntu 13.04 Suffers Performance

[Basil Chupin]

On 19/06/13 17:41, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 19/06/13 15:58, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> Do you clear the cache (and possibly history etc) when you shutdown
>>>> Firefox?
>>> Yes, I clear the cache but not the history. Do you suggest that a
>>> startup delay could be caused by an empty cache?
>> No, just the opposite - the cache would be loaded when you start FF
>> but you clear it so this is not a possible cause. However, what about
>> History? how big is it?
> Ah, I misunderstood your hint then. Well, I don't know which file
> contains the history, but if it is places.sqlite that would be 11 MiB.
>
>> I have a rather large Bookmarks file and I have noticed that FF takes
>> just a bit longer to start nowadays, but it doesn't worry me.
> I don't have many bookmarks - bookmarks.html is only 20 kiB.
>
>> I did read sometime ago that 'to make Firefox leaner and meaner' one
>> should clear out the sqlite databases occasionally. The command to do
>> this - in console as root, and put command all on the 1 (one) line:
>>
>> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getSe
>> rvice(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSi
>> mpleSQL("VACUUM");
> Thanks for the command, but I don't understand what it does, so I won't
> try it. If I read "executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM")", I fear it would delete
> things I want to keep.

Well I did this 'vacuuming' a while back and I didn't notice any bad 
effects. But make a backup of ~/.mozilla of course just in case :-) .

> Actually I'm not really worried about the startup delay. I just
> mentioned my observations of the unrelated slow NFS share because it
> might give others a hint where to look for their slow firefox start.
>
>
> Nils

BC

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