[geeks] Dual Core Rules: your bugs will run twice as fast

[Mark]

On 12 Feb 2007, at 20:15, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Today I had to chuck a bit when I saw this:
>
>> top - 15:11:04 up 15:28,  6 users,  load average: 3.78, 3.51, 3.66
>> Tasks: 139 total,   2 running, 136 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu0  : 98.0%us,  1.8%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2% 
>> si,  0.0%st
>> Cpu1  :100.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0% 
>> si,  0.0%st
>> Mem:   2073804k total,  1640632k used,   433172k free,   179664k  
>> buffers
>> Swap:   511984k total,     2824k used,   509160k free,   575216k  
>> cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI CODE DATA  VIRT SWAP  RES  SHR S %CPU    
>> TIME P COMMAND
>> 26043 shannon    0   0  11m 233m  284m 205m  79m  25m S  179  
>> 471:18 0 thunderbird-bin
>
> That's the first few lines of top running on my system as I type this.
>
> I'm happy to see that I'm getting such an improvement in bug  
> performance.

I'm almost tempted to try it on my new Mac Pro just to see if it'll  
level out 4 cores!

I really think Mozilla need a kick in the ass, if you run Thunderbird  
and Firefox you have no resources left for anything else now! ;o)

I use Thunderbird at work because for the most part it's fast and  
free but holy hell it has some stupid bugs in. I and my boss, who's  
been weaned off AOL onto 'real' e-Mail, both have occasional problem  
with it crapping out when talking to SMTP servers, with 2 totally  
different ISPs. I think the SMTP AUTH is broken on 1.5.x. Shutting  
down TB, Windows and even the whole machine never seems to help, you  
have to wait for the server to let you send again (I suspect it locks  
out after a certain number of failed auths?), which can take up to 2  
hours!

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