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Anyone else find Firefox extremely unresponsive when running Folding or any other low priority process that takes 100% of the CPU?

Running Firefox 2 on Linux w/ a core 2 duo processor w/ both cores loaded w/ Prime95.

Beowulf, what version of Firefox are you using?

Pu-239 wrote:Anyone else find Firefox extremely unresponsive when running Folding or any other low priority process that takes 100% of the CPU?

Regardless of priority, when a process is using 100% of a processor, it will be very hard to run any other application on that processor.

Try relegating Folding to one of your CPU's, and run firefox on the other.

Running Firefox 2 on Linux w/ a core 2 duo processor w/ both cores loaded w/ Prime95.

When you say "loaded with Prime95," do you mean that you've ran Prime95 and it ran stable for 10 hours?

I'm still using FF 1.5. I haven't gotten around to getting 2.0 yet. I've had no problems with lack of responsiveness in Firefox. Trillian is a bit of a different story. Sometimes that lags a bit behind when I'm typing.

Dominus, shut up. F@H is a low priority process. Even though it takes 100% of the CPU, if any other process wants a quantum of compute cycles, that process gets it.

I'll note that I'm running WinXP though. Ubuntu didn't want to install (JMicron controller issues, I think).

Beowulf wrote:Dominus, shut up. F@H is a low priority process. Even though it takes 100% of the CPU, if any other process wants a quantum of compute cycles, that process gets it.

He didn't say Folding@home. I assumed he was talking about some Linux file indexer he had set to low priority. Christ, my mistake.

Dominus Atheos wrote:

Pu-239 wrote:Anyone else find Firefox extremely unresponsive when running Folding or any other low priority process that takes 100% of the CPU?

Regardless of priority, when a process is using 100% of a processor, it will be very hard to run any other application on that processor.

Try relegating Folding to one of your CPU's, and run firefox on the other.

Running Firefox 2 on Linux w/ a core 2 duo processor w/ both cores loaded w/ Prime95.

When you say "loaded with Prime95," do you mean that you've ran Prime95 and it ran stable for 10 hours?

Er, that it's running w/ priority set to 19 (the lowest one).

I think I've traced it down to the blasted Flash 9 beta plugin (which is still a lot more stable and doesn't blow as many chunks as the Flash 7 one), so noflash has rectified this.