-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > Okay, I've discovered that the first load is consistently bad. By this > I mean, when I start firefox, the first load that happens as part of > this. (I also suspect that if I leave firefox for a while (subjective) > that they first load when I resume using it is also bad. > > As an example, it too 2.5 minutes (yes, you read the right) to > completely load the front page of www.ebay.com.au (which I have made my > home page). > What kind of hardware and how much ram do you have. On my machine (and I'm in the US) that page loaded in < 10 seconds. My machine is a 1.7Ghz Pentium M and I have 2GB of RAM. > As a comparison, Mozilla in VMWare loads www.ebay.com.au consistently in > less than 5 seconds. > > And it's the same for other pages. For example, I've typed the last > three paragraphs in the time it's taken to actually change the page from > www.ebay.com.au to www.slashdot.org. In fact, it still hasn't happened. > slashdot.org loads in 4 seconds here. > Ah, there it goes. Once it starts loading the page, then it usually > loads very quickly. > > So what else can I test? It sounds like you may have a DNS resolution problem. Might want to make sure the DNS server you are using is the best you can. I actually have a caching DNS server on my network, but even my ISPs is not that slow. Kevin - -- Get my public GnuPG key from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D0BD5D1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Remi - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG0Oqg6w2kMH0L1dERAn91AJ42hso+2oEkCtWG7jcT10QkmT2XlgCfcU8R yBVxRr6Ltf0D7yu0zzFb1Bo= =wRB6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list