https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450306 Summary: Browsing in Firefox is extremely slow during kernel compilation Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bart.vanassche@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer Clicking on an URL in Firefox such that Firefox opens the link in the current page or in a new tab happens extremely slow when there are a lot of dirty pages -- sometimes this takes up to twenty seconds, even on a fast system with a lot of RAM. This happens a.o. during kernel compilation (make -j3 bzImage) or during disk backup. Other browsers, e.g. Konqueror, do not have this problem -- not too long ago all fsync() and fdatasync() calls have been removed from Konqueror. I guess the slowdown is caused by the way Firefox saves URL's to the history -- calling fsync() or fdatasync() each time an URL has been added to the history ? As far as I know Firefox uses SQLite for a.o. making the URL history persistent. SQLite calls fsync() after every synchronous transaction. Please modify Firefox such that it doesn't call fsync() / fdatasync() anymore. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.