Slow scroll in Mozilla

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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.
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> --
> Ken Moffat
> kmoffat at modizzle dot net
>

I tried --safe-mode for iceweasel, but no effect, still slow, jerky
scrolling, even during page-down/page-up.

Maybe I'll disable fglrx to see if that's causing something. (or go buy
nvidia)

-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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