On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 22:38, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 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?
[... snipped ...]
> 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...)
Did you check whether your machine uses swap file?
In my laptop, which ran Gnome in 128MB, I had similar behavior until I
added extra 256MB.
--- Omer
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