I like SCHED_4BSD

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Ryan Freeman wrote:

> well, i have a 1.2ghz duron, 384mb ram and a 4.3gb fujitsu harddrive
> running with UDMA66 and a 20gb maxtor drive with UDMA100. curiously,
> firefox takes about 10-12 seconds to load. (earlier today it took 20+
> seconds and i was quite shocked). HOWEVER, i ran mozilla 1.6-something
> and it took only 3-4 seconds to load! the only excuse i can see for this
> is that i compiled firefox on release-5.2 and mozilla after
> release-5.2.1(only because of that damn mplayerplug-in, too :/) also
> when i compiled firefox i didn't have CPUTYPE=athlon set in
> /etc/make.conf, it was compiling with the default pentiumpro it seems.
> could that really affect load times that much?

Not to pessimize what efficiency improvements you get out of cpu-specific
optimizations, but the shorter load times are most likely due to your
system's filesystem cache being hard at work. Try rebooting between the
startup of each browser (Common libraries will very likely make their way
into the cache and throw your results off).

Andy

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