On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:04:13AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > >New observations after further testing: First, I think I was mistaken, and > >this problem does not occur in my other Etch system. Secondly, top shows > >only one CPU pegged at 100%, while the overall CPU utilization is 50%, > >suggesting that the other CPU is idle. Taken together these seem to > >suggest a possible SMP or motherboard issue (MSI K9MM-V). > > I posted too soon. Apparently the image setting had not taken hold, and > when I did disable it the problem went away, both in Iceape and Konqueror. > This seems odd because the page is mostly text, with only a few small > images. Now I am guessing there is some kind of image library issue.
Just to clarify what you're seeing in top: 0.0%wa ? I've found that the browsers pre-render and store stuff in memory which slows down the system when it starts to swap, or it saves stuff to the disk cache with the same result. Since I often access my browser via ssh from my slow box, I've found that Konq stores rendered pages in the Xorg server whereas iceweasel stores it locally. My X terminal box only has 64 MB ram so if I need to view a complex/graphical page or multiple tabs I'll use iceweasel, otherwise I like Konq. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
