Slow scroll in Mozilla

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> --
>>> Collins Richey
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>> 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
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> I tried --safe-mode for iceweasel, but no effect, still slow, jerky
> scrolling, even during page-down/page-up.
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> Maybe I'll disable fglrx to see if that's causing something. (or go buy
> nvidia)
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> --
> Ken Moffat
> kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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Well, I changed fglrx to vesa in xorg.conf and that seems to have fixed the
problem. Of course, I should have tried that as soon as I saw xorg eating
cpu's, but was disgruntled and went ahead and did a ubuntu install on
another partition, which prompts to install fglrx proprietary drivers, which
function well. Must have been a problem during my install of fglrx on debian
sid, or a problem during upgrading. Arghh.....


-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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