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

[Bart Smaalders]

Jens Hamisch wrote:
> 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 .... ;-)
> 


What does prstat report as running?  Is it mozilla?  What page are you
displaying?  Does it matter?

- Bart

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