Question for Gene Heskett about slow Firefox launch

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Tue Jan 16 16:58:34 UTC 2007


Gene Heskett wrote:

In the thread "Re: How NSA access was built into Windows"

 >
I believe you will have to build a generic kernel.org kernel 
configured without that support, something I have underway right now, 
using 2.6.20-rc4.  I was amazed at the number of options I found 
turned on that a proper 'make oldconfig' should absolutely never have 
turned on.  My scripts take care of everything but grub.conf for a 
kernel install, so when its done all I should have to do is reboot 
since I'm already running 2.6.20-rc4.  Several things I found may even 
account for the apparent slowness of later kernels.  Things like 15 
seconds to launch firefox on an xp-2800 athlon with a gig of ram?
 >

Gene,

Could you share some of these "Several things I found"? I'm having the 
same problem with slow firefox launching on a very similar system. I'm 
currently running vanilla kernel 2.6.19.2.

Thanks,

John




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