Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Sat, 13 Nov: > > > > 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. > > mozilla, on Debian, is a script that does mozilla-bin -remote, if it > already runs. So one way to measure such things is to do > time xtoolwait sh -c 'mozilla; sleep 2'
then I would be timing bash and several other unimportant elements. I'm talking about a case where I fire a new tab (not a new process) from within the program. the the time it takes to open the tab, and load the page, may take 6-10 seconds, where it's less than a second on windows. As if the windows version opens a new thread and I get the GUI responsive again, while on Linux it acts as if it all blocks for several long seconds. > > I could not care less about loading time of programs that get started > > twice a week and stay open all the time... it's the work speed I am > > annoyed by. > > Sorry, more people use my machine (at home) so I can't. I think for > some time now about stuff like VNC/nx. Anyone cares to share their > experience? I must say it puzzles me how it turned out that technically you are still running on a P2/166 and you want a multiuser desktop environment? that's masochism! > > 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...) > > Again, very weird. > $ time vim -c :q > real 0m0.085s > user 0m0.050s > sys 0m0.020s I said SOMETIMES. and of course I can't time this when VIM is already in the read cache. -- Founding father 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]
