28834 - Startup time on Win98 is very slow.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[leger]

On a Win 98, 200 MHz, Pentium Pro, 64mg RAM machine; Build 2000022108,
startup time is: 
Launch 9:14 sec/Re-launch 5:63 sec for 4.72
Launch 45:32 sec/Re-launch 29:73 sec for Seamonkey

We need to figure out why and fix for beta1.

Comment 1

[leger]

Adding beta1 and perf keywords.

Comment 2

[leger]

Putting on [Jan Daily] radar

Comment 3

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

I think we need to get this up for beta.

Comment 4

[leger]

Need to investigate.  If we cannot get improved for beta in time, we will not 
hold for Win98 startup time only (Win 95 and NT doing better).

Comment 5

[Jim Roskind]

Performance is important... but unless we have a big ratio to 4.x, we have to
PDT- this for beta on 3/3 and really clear the radar to do final cleanup.

Comment 6

[Ivan Eisen]

The startup slowdown has been introduced recently.  
I used to be able to bring up Mozilla (M13) in about 6.6 seconds
(immediately following the booting of my Win98 333Mhz 64mg system).  On
the 2/29/00 version it is taking me 17+ seconds to bring up Mozilla.

Comment 7

[Ray Yang]

I average about 30 seconds to load mozilla (Win98, PII, 400 MHz, using the M14 
milestone), vs. 10 seconds for Communicator, and 5 for IE5. 

Comment 8

[Jim Roskind]

Per whiteboard transition date of 3/3, I'm downgrading this to PDT- for beta1.  
We did a lot of good work... and I believe Netscape marketing is willing to ship 
a beta1 at the current level.  
Good work by the team!!! :-)

Comment 9

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

This was due to the enabling of page load timing measurement in the release
builds. Things came back to normal once we turned that off.

Comment 10

[leger]

Yes. Win98 met Beta1 requirements and improved.  Marking Verified.