> This is sort of a general question. I have a quad core AMD server with > 16 Gigs of ram. I am running Hardy 2.6.24-25-server #1 SMP > This morning with 16 users logged on my load average was 16 to 20 and > I noticed that a single firefox process was taking 95% of my CPU.
Do you know what they are doing/what kind of web pages they are surfing - flash, java, lots of pictures, some kind of embedded movies or embedded audio players, lots of popup windows and so on - FF has n+1 plugins - bad, bad dog. But maybe FF is not so bad, but bad design for web pages can do that. If you google 'ltsp firefox optimize' you find this example: "First, considering the X server/client architecture, I noticed that transferring large images between a client and a server involves a raw image transfer, which means around 47 MBs for a 5000x1224 32 bits jpeg (=4.7 second on a 100mbit line). Second, storing a 47 MBs image on a thin client quickly crashes the X server since some of them have 64 MB of RAM total (The crash is caused by the kernel to protect itself from reaching an out-of-memory state)." http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.gfx/browse_thread/thread/b73e3cf79530ddc3 You remember lynx... ;-) Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
