Paul Hartman wrote: > W3's CSS home at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ is EXTREMELY slow for me > using Mozilla on OS/2. Initial rendering of the page takes about 15 > seconds, and if I PageDn it takes about 5 seconds. (Keep in mind the > seconds I'm talking about is seconds of 100% CPU usage, not loading > off the network etc). Any scrolling of the page, moving the mouse over > the "hot spots" etc makes it suck CPU. Is it "supposed" to be this > slow in Mozilla, or is something wrong with my installation here? I'm > on a P2 266 CPU, which ain't exactly state of the art, but in Opera > 5.12 that page has no problems and is relatively fast (though it does > _look_ much better in Mozilla), so I don't think the hardware is the > limiting factor.
You didn't say how much RAM you had in your system. Mozilla is very RAM hungry. If you have anything less than 128 MB you probably need more RAM (it's dirt cheap these days). One good way to tell if you need RAM is that your system is paging. Check the size of your \OS2\SYSTEM\SWAPPER.DAT. The high CPU usage could be explained by running a slow PIO IDE controller. -- "Except for the lack of debugging and the ps thing, [Linux] kernel threads are generally fine right now. And if you're not too fussed about the more fiddly details of POSIX threads, and your application doesn't spend most of its time in thread creation, then LinuxThreads is great too." Linux-Kernel archive
