On 2006-11-12 09:50, Sven Jacobs wrote: > Dear mailing list, > > suddenly I have a strange problem with HTTP requests. From time to time all > requests are being paused as it seems. For example I enter a URL in Firefox > but the website does not load immediately though the browser is showing the > activity animation. It's just waiting. If I open up other websites in tabs > they are also not loading. Then suddenly all websites are loaded *at once* as > if the pauses on the requests have been released. This also happens if I open > up links within the same domain so I guess it's no DNS problem. > The same problem arose here within the past week on my 9.3 system. All of a sudden, Mozilla slowed to a crawl. Upgrading to Seamonkey did not resolve it, so I decided to compile Seamonkey on my own system. Resolving dependencies for that resulted in the packages mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr being installed on my system (curiously, Seamonkey itself does not depend on those packages). That seems to have made things better, but did not entirely eliminate the problem.
All of this began about Nov 7, shortly after I did my most recent security upgrade (Oct 31), but I do not know if anything in that upgrade could be responsible. The only upgraded packages which seem as if they could possibly be relevant are the kernel, the xorg server and the flashplayer. The kernel is very unlikely to be responsible, and everything else runs fine under the X server. I did have several CNN pages open when the problem first arose, and CNN uses a lot of flash, so it is possible that is responsible -- but since then I have rebooted, and not encountered any more flash material that I know of in my browsing. It is possible that something in one of the installed packages has caused Java and/or javascript to slow to a crawl. Java is a resource hog to begin with, and it probably wouldn't take much to cause it to begin hogging the entire CPU (verified with "top" that this is what is happening). Memory is not an issue, as the output of "free" has consistently shown. I have not tried turning off either Java or javascript to check this possibility. With very limited testing, Konqueror does not seem to have a similar problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
