facebook is slow

[Misha Koshelev]

I am on Ubuntu 8.04 amd64.

It is not a flash bug as same thing occurs when I remove flash.

I am happy to send any logs... etc

Thank you
Misha

p.s. I have Greasemonkey installed + some scripts but doesn't seem to help

[Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug.

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "facebook is slow"

Facebook uses a lot of javascript on its site and that might be one of the reasons.
Have you noticed similar problems on other websites ?

If not , it is not a bug related to firefox, maybe a network connectivity problem or a problem with facebook itself.

Also does your CPU usage spike when this happens.

You can check your CPU usage using the 'top' command in the gnome-terminal

[Misha Koshelev (misha680)]

CPU usage is approx 10%. Scrolling is very slow. When I enter text into textboxes there is a very long lag between when I enter a key and text appears.

It seems to be fairly faster in Opera.

I am using a NoMachine client session. I will try in non-NoMachine session this weekend. I am pretty sure from past experiences it is same unfortunately (NoMachine session locally).

Misha

[Misha Koshelev (misha680)]

Ok tried in a non-NoMachine session. Even slower.

Two things are slow:
1) Scrolling
2) There is a horrible horrible lag when I type text in a textbox. Interestingly if I type in a gedit and copy paste there is no such lag.

This is not a new problem. Interestingly on another laptop that is i386 I don't seem to have these problems.

And Opera on the same computer seems to work a lot faster.

But CPU usage stays around 10%. Any help will be appreciated. I tried some Greasemonkey scripts but did not seem to help much.

Thank you
Misha

[Misha Koshelev (misha680)]

Ok I installed nvidia 185 drivers and it seems much better. So I guess it's an nvidia bug.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7518490&postcount=3

Misha

[Misha Koshelev (misha680)]

Definitely an nvidia bug. Actually the 185 drivers work fine now that Dell replaced my mobo/fan. Thank you