[desktop-discuss] Mozilla 1.7 slowes down java desktop on Solaris 10

[Jens Hamisch]

Hi,

I'm facing a strange behavior of Mozilla 1.7 - as provided by Sun - on
Solaris 10 (Sparc) boxes running Java desktop (I did not yet check if it 
applies to x86 or amd64 boxes, too):

The GUI performance (e.g. time between changing focus from one window
to another) was vary good until I've set up LDAP authentication on
our network.

Since then it takes hours (well some seconds ...) to change the focus
from one window to another if Mozilla is active on any virtual desktop.
During this time frame the CPU load (measured using vmstat) is at 100%.
Performance - and the CPU load - becomes better again if Mozilla is 
iconized.

I already tried Suns patch 120099-06 which claims to reduce LDAP requests,
but it doesn't help.

The machine I'm facing this on is a SunBlade 2000 with 2 750Mhz processors
and 1GB of memory installed. I've also noticed a significant decrease in 
performance in another network I'm running. Over there we have - still - NIS+ 
instead of LDAP. Until now I thought that the slower Ultra 30 boxes over there 
simply would be overloaded, but the experience with the SunBlade here paints 
another picture.

Has anybody seen this before?
Any comments are mostly welcome .... ;-)

Jens
 
 
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