Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client

[Matthias Gamsjager]

Have you tried 8 stable?
On 23 Mar 2011 22:12, "George Mitchell" <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
> Original message, from ten months ago:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031915.html
>
> Briefly, running the distributed.net client on my FreeBSD 8.0 box
> made Firefox take forever to start up (90 seconds vs. 2 seconds).
> The distributed.net client is essentially 100% CPU bound, with
> occasional file I/O and even more occasional socket I/O, running
> at nice 20. The problem has persisted since then.
>
> So I finally compiled up a kernel using SCHED_4BSD instead of
> SCHED_ULE. Problem fixed.
>
> It still doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling about FreeBSD 8.0,
> since I still have the awful NFS client performance problem (though
> not as bad as before the Rick Macklem patch). -- George Mitchell
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