mozilla speed problems and gcc optimization for duron morgan

hokas · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Finland

I'm experiencing slow ui and rendering on mozilla. I've tried to recompile it couple of times but it hasn't worked. Rendering web pages is slow and also the ui compared to other linux distros (slackware, red hat) or windows. Still mozilla starts up in few seconds.
I have 1.2 duron and ati radon video card. Because of the problems I just installed gentoo 1.4rc1 and i'm using gcc 3.2 with duron optimizations. hasn't changed anything. Before I used gentoo 1.2. I've X running with ati's driver. I haven't experienced same performance problems any other applications expect galeon. And it uses gecko so... Gnome and other desktops, applications run fast enough. And konqueror renders web pages much faster. I didn't find any similar from forums. I've understood that disabling debug shouldn't accelerate applications, only startup times so it shouldn't help me.
And a another question: What optimization should I use for duron with Morgan core?? I've understood that the core is the same as in athlon-xp expect cache.

Thanks for your help

Possie · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:46 pm Post subject:

I consider myself a newbie, but dare to give you my experience. I also have a 1.2 Duron (don't know the core). I haven't been able to use the duron optimization for all packages. Now that I use athlon, everything goes just fine. I've read that the Duron above 1 GHz can use Athlon optimization. Hope this will help you.

Swishy · Guru Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ

hokas · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Finland

I didn't find any help for the awful speed of some programs in my gentoo installation... I installed Slackware 8.1 over my gentoo :cry:

and I found especially mozilla, galeon working much faster ... Now I'm trying to get along with Slackware... I have same xfree (4.2 with ati driver) running in slackware.

I'm very disappointed that I coudn't make gentoo work. I like very much structure and in general using of gentoo (filesystem, config scripts, portage...).

The main problem was the performance of mozilla. Ui and renderin was very slow compared to mozilla in other systems I've used. I didn't have same problems with other browsers (old netscape, konqueror) expect galeon. I tried other versions (0.99, 1.0, 1.01) but nothing changed. I have a feeling that mozilla slowed down even more in gnome 2 than in xfce. I'm not sure. I also had a feeling that using gnome was somehow slowed down from gnome 1.4. Maby I'm a little paranoid with performance but I'm sure about mozilla. Other programs in gnome 2 also seemed a little sticky to use. I think that xfce responds quicker under slackware than gentoo.

I tried gentoo linux 1.2 and 1.4_rc1 with athlon and athlon_xp optimizations, same again... One thing I didn't try was removing debug. Now I'm thinking I'll have to reinstall gentoo and try removing it

. Maby when 1.4 is released.

hokas
Finland

helmers · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:32 am Post subject:

My gentoo uses mozilla 1.0, which is much slower than 1.1, so if your slack installation uses 1.1, you will get an unfair comparison. Also, I can't think how anything you compile and control yourself can be slower than the default. And slackware only comes in 386/686 packags, if I remember correctly. It should be heaps slower. :twisted:

hokas · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Finland

I'm using default mozilla in slackware 8.1, version 1.0. And it's the same version i've used in windows. All the packages should be optimized for i386, slack works in i386 system...