Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: > The things you do currently depend a lot on other things, like disk > speed etc.
I surf in tabs. when I middle-click a link, there's a pretty long freeze while the mozilla allocates the memory for the new tab, draws the tab, starts twirling the download graphic, and finally the window is responsive to the mouse cursor again. this process takes under 1/20 of the time on the same machine running Firefox under windows. maybe it's not the machine I should upgrade then. maybe something is really wrong with the way it's built on Debian Sid? > Also, I read some time ago about prelink, and your email > convinced me to try it. It made both mozilla and firefox go from 6 > seconds (time xtoolwait mozilla/firefox, second try, to let the cache > help) to 3. apt-get install prelink, prelink -av -f -mR. It also > installs a cronjob, disabled by default. Times, BTW, are on a 1Ghz > Duron, with X on a P166Mhz. I could not care less about loding time of programs that get started twice a week and stay open all the time... it's the work speed I am annoyed by. maybe I have a general problem with memory management? it sometimes also takes 5-6 seconds for vim to allocate and run when forked (usually from within mutt...) > > on to my next project now... figure out why kernel 2.6.9 killed cdrecord > > and how to fix it. sayonara for now. > > Does work for me, but with the ide-scsi module, contrary to what it > says at insmod time. cdrecord dev=/dev/hdx sometimes worked, not always. > I think it never worked with 2.6.9 for me. problem solved. oddly it was the ide-cd module (ide-scsi is deprecated in 2.6, and cdrecord works quite well with ATA). Next to install my DVD burner... -- An out of body experiance Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
