I can confirm. My university's wireless is horrible sometimes, and this is the observed behavior. At first, I thought it was because I was using a softmac wireless card, but a quick look at top shows Xorg being the one hogging cycles. This problem is even worse when using a compositor. And of course, this effects all gecko related projects; thunderbird, firefox, seamonkey, etc. Recent trunk builds exhibit the same effect.
My best guess is that gecko tries to rerender the client display every time it gets new data. As the connection is slow/unstable, data comes in at a trickle, leading it to make a lot of X calls to redraw the client. Turning off whatever loading animations I could and lowering the page redraw frequency alleviated the situation somewhat. -- Xorg eats processor cycles while waiting for slow Internet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297143 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
