On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 05:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 10:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i am at my wit's end with firefox on my fedora rawhide system -- to > > > say it's nad-grindingly slow would be charitable. just now, i tried > > > clicking on another tab ... some 30 seconds later, i am still waiting > > > for the tab to change, oh, wait, there it is. > > > > > > watching any sort of youtube video is excruciating ... while audio > > > is typically, i will frequently get *maybe* one frame change a second, > > > i kid you not. i frequently get javascripts that are not responding, > > > and i'm asked whether i want to wait for them. > > > > > > is there *something* i can do to debug this? what firefox > > > configuration settings should i be looking at? i'm willing to try > > > anything because, at this point, firefox is utterly unusable. even > > > something as simple as scrolling in a window is painfully slow. > > > > > > oh, and i'm on a quad core i7, so i'm pretty sure horsepower isn't > > > the problem. > > > > FWIW, I've been seeing some odd 'laggy' behaviour in F21 on my > > desktop lately, which does mostly seem to be in Firefox. I do have > > sixteen zillion tabs open, but I do that a lot and it's not happened > > before, and RAM isn't exhausted (I have 16GB, using about 8GB). I > > don't have Flash installed. Not had time to look into it in more > > detail yet, but it does seem like something squiffy is going on. > > > > The symptoms are basically that things like switching tabs, > > highlighting text, copy/pasting, or input appearing after I start to > > type lag by 1-3 seconds, and sometimes presses/characters that occur > > within the lag time are lost. > > yup, those are/were my symptoms *exactly* -- it's much better now > that i've disabled flash but that shouldn't have been necessary, > should it? i'm on a quad core i7 and also have 16G of RAM and not even > close to using all of it most of the time. > > so it's a bit of a relief that i'm not the only person seeing this. FWIW, I rebooted yesterday afternoon to the latest F21 userland and kernel 3.17.0-0.rc6.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 from rawhide-kernel-nodebug (I've been using those kernels all along) and haven't seen the laggy behaviour in Firefox since. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
