Kyle Yuan's Weblog

Tuesday November 02, 2004

Mozilla performance decline on new kernel (Linux 2.6.5)

We noticed that mozilla's startup and page load performance slightly declined after we upgraded the Linux kernel from 2.4 to 2.6. Below are the result got from our internal tinderbox. The value is an average of 5 runs on the exactly same hardware.

             2.6     2.4   change
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Startup      1662    1463  +13.6%
Page Load   432.2   410.8   +5.2%