On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:57:37AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:48:21AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > From: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" <pe...@bsdly.net> > > > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:10:41 +0100 > > > > > > On 01/22/16 22:46, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > Firefox makes a lot of concurrent malloc(3) calls. The locking to > > > > make malloc(3) thread-safe is a bit...suboptimal. This diff makes > > > > things better by using a mutex instead of spinlock. If you're running > > > > Firefox you want to try it; it makes video watchable on some machines. > > > > If you're not running Firefox you want to try it; to make sure it > > > > doesn't break things. > > > > > > Running this since early Saturday, Firefox is definitely more responsive > > > than earlier. > > > > > > I haven't tried running other resource hogs such as LibreOffice with > > > several large documents, but I guess I could try that too if it's a > > > relevant scenario. > > > > Please do! > > Albeit small, x11/xfce4/thunar makes a heavy use of threads (in general, > and even more when talking to gvfs mounts). It feels now 200% snappier.
Another successful test on i386 where firefox had became totally unusable (Atom N270, 1Gb RAM), with the latest snap (including the diff) it's sort-of usable (gmaps, google news...). Yay! Landry
