Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:08 -0700, stan wrote: Brian C. Huffman wrote: I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance). I couldn't live with the IO thrashing in b5. I just downloaded the binary from mozilla.org and installed it under

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:08 -0700, stan wrote: Brian C. Huffman wrote: I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance). I couldn't live with the IO thrashing in b5. I just downloaded the binary from

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dl´ed the RC3 binary from mozilla.com and it does seem to work better. Unfortunately it's a 32-bit binary so a lot of my plugins don't work. I can't seem to find a 64-bit version anywhere. I seem to remember

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 14:42 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:08 -0700, stan wrote: Brian C. Huffman wrote: I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance). I couldn't

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:00 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dl´ed the RC3 binary from mozilla.com and it does seem to work better. Unfortunately it's a 32-bit binary so a lot of my plugins don't work. I can't

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 23:03 +0100, Colin J Thomson wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008 20:21:18 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:00 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dl´ed the RC3 binary

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-10 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:40 -0700, David L wrote: I wonder why f9 is still using beta after two release candidates have been released.? I wonder why Fedora ever bothered with using a beta. Surely users should be doing some sort of yum install firefox-beta if they want to use a beta release,

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 11:11 PM On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:40 -0700, David L wrote: I wonder

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-10 Thread stan
stan wrote: I'm running Fedora 9 with the Firefox 3 beta. After start, Firefox reads and writes heavily to the disk (99.99% in iotop) for almost a minute. Is this known behavior and acceptable or a bug? This is a known issue decribed here, has to do with the changed way that firefox

RE: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-10 Thread Brian C. Huffman
performance is *much* better now. Once they get an RPM out, I'll switch. But for now, I'm able to actually work. -b - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 6/10/2008 2:19pm To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-10 Thread stan
Brian C. Huffman wrote: I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance). I couldn't live with the IO thrashing in b5. I just downloaded the binary from mozilla.org and installed it under /usr/lib/firefox-3.0rc2 and changed the references

Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

2008-06-09 Thread stan
Mike Burger wrote: I'm running Fedora 9 with the Firefox 3 beta. After start, Firefox reads and writes heavily to the disk (99.99% in iotop) for almost a minute. Is this known behavior and acceptable or a bug? Keeping in mind that Firefox is now out at 3.0 RC2 (though I can't find an