Firebird -> Firefox

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:26:56 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > > > I think the key is KDE.  Perhaps stop using that, and everything
> > > > else will run faster.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That goes without saying!  I'm not a permanent kde user, but I try
> > > it out whenever a new version is released, just to see what a lot of
> > > people are experiencing.
> > >
> > > When I'm not running kde, right now I'm using PAWM which is a very
> > > low overhead, single desktop WM.
> >
> > And you still get the same slow startup times?
> >
>
> Yes,
>
> No difference between firebird and firefox, either initial loading or
> reloads.  Also, firefox appers to be unable to print from the Mapquest
> site; there is a problem handling fonts.

Perhaps your problem is disk IO?  Have you used hdparm at all to improve
disk throughput?  What kind of HDs are you using?

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