FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

Abdullah Al-Marrie almarrie at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 10:44:28 PST 2006


Hello,

I installed FF 2.0 from the ports.
I noticed that FF 2.0 uses alot of CPU power every time I open a new
page in the tabs, or refresh an opened page, it's not app startup
issue, beside I don't know if Linux has the same issue too.

I didn't notice this issue with Konqueror with KDE 3.5.5.

Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 1596012523 Hz
CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x40f82  Stepping = 2
Instruction TLB: 32 entries, fully associative
L1 data cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way associative
L1 instruction cache: 64 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 2-way associative
L2 internal cache: 256 kbytes, 64 bytes/line, 1 lines/tag, 8-way associative
real memory  = 1474887680 (1406 MB)

uname -a
FreeBSD  6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 22 15:02:36
AST 2006     arabian@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN  i386

PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES   STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
886 arabian             6  89    0      132M   111M CPU1   1   2:55
141.99% firefox-bin

Here is my make.conf

CPUTYPE=k8
RELEASETAG="RELENG_6"


This isn't
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/


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