FreeBSD 10.1 runs Firefox 34.0.5 slow on X / Fluxbox on my Xi3 "Z3ro Pro" with it's 1.65GHz dual–core AMD G–series processor, Radeon HD 6320 GPU with 80 programmable cores, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and 32GB – 512GB mSATA SSD.
Can someone please tell me if this is expected or do I need to tweak? Install kernel modules? Remove kernel modules? Set some parameters?
I think I was on FreeBSD 9.1 on my very old machine and it was fine but FreeBSD 10.1 saw a big jump in version for Firefox and now on this new machine sometimes clicks aren't recognised, mouse gets stuck, and a fair bit of waiting involved while Firefox gets it together to process the click and render a new tab or whatever. Same when running Chrome. It's not Firefox per se.
I know this is a low power cool and quiet processor. I wasn't expecting blazing fast but I figured dual core, 1.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM with Radeon GPU suitable for multi-display signage wouldn't have a problem with one X desktop?
I am also running a wireless network and bluetooth for my keyboard using USB sticks. I wondered if it's possible these are taking CPU or RAM and slowing things down a bit?
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Can someone please tell me if this is expected or do I need to tweak? Install kernel modules? Remove kernel modules? Set some parameters?
I think I was on FreeBSD 9.1 on my very old machine and it was fine but FreeBSD 10.1 saw a big jump in version for Firefox and now on this new machine sometimes clicks aren't recognised, mouse gets stuck, and a fair bit of waiting involved while Firefox gets it together to process the click and render a new tab or whatever. Same when running Chrome. It's not Firefox per se.
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# uname -a
FreeBSD engine.local 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
I know this is a low power cool and quiet processor. I wasn't expecting blazing fast but I figured dual core, 1.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM with Radeon GPU suitable for multi-display signage wouldn't have a problem with one X desktop?
I am also running a wireless network and bluetooth for my keyboard using USB sticks. I wondered if it's possible these are taking CPU or RAM and slowing things down a bit?
Some of
dmesg
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CPU: AMD G-T56N Processor (1646.53-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x500f20 Family = 0x14 Model = 0x2 Stepping = 0
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x802209<SSE3,MON,SSSE3,CX16,POPCNT>
AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x35ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,IBS,SKINIT,WDT>
TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 3685003264 (3514 MB)
Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
ACPI APIC Table: <Xi3 Z3RO-PRO>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1