Slow scroll in Mozilla

Ken Moffat kmoffat at drizzle.com
Sat Feb 28 23:37:58 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>
> > Try running TOP to see if anything is soaking up CPU cycles.   I have
> found
> > that Firefox will often spend 100% of the cpu doing 'something'.  I
> usually
> > have to kill it and restart.
>
> Yeah, I forgot. Iceweasel is very prone to this. On my latest sidux
> install on a laptop (athlon variety), Iceweasel was eating the entire
> machine. Not an uncommon behavior. After switching to Swiftfox with
> all the same plugins (no extensions), the behavior went away.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>

According to top it is xorg that is consuming  90% cpu with xulrunner-stub
second. When not scrolling xulrunner-stub consumes 10-11% of memory. and
5-12% cpu.



-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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