I got massive Mint XFCE-CE performance issues

[Husse]

The Firefox problem is a "Firefox problem" - FF can be resource hungry

PIV 1.8GHz with only 256MB of RAM

This is probably one of the first P4 with terrible performance - not much better than your PIII 700 (yes!)
But it's very hard to say what is wrong with so few facts
I believe Merlwiz will start on a Elyssa xfce - lets hope that'll happen
(Remember that the Community editions cannot be guaranteed to progress - except the KDE which i treated almost as the main)

[merlwiz79]

I am currently working on Elyssa XFCE CE.
I am currently looking at the Elyssa main Beta Live cd and it takes 10 tab to get to 70MBs in Firefox.
Also mintUpdate has been worked on and should not* use as much memory as before.
Here's the latest mintUpdate from Romeo(testing) repo. http://www.linuxmint.com/repository/poo ... 3_i386.deb
You don't really need mintUpdate running, just run it once a week.

You can also turn off services not used.(like bluetooth)

You could also try a different bowser.
Seamonkey http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 902#p71902
Flock http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 745#p71745
Swiftfox (in Synaptic)
epiphany-browser (in Synaptic)
opera (in Synaptic)
* a little word added by husse

[merlwiz79]

There will be away of updating from Daryna to Elyssa some time ofter the stable comes out.
I try to make it easier for people by using a script to do most of the work for you.

I don't know why it would use 80% to 90% of the cpu.
Have you tried uninstalling all the add-ons.
Then reinstalling one and testing which could be the problem.
Also have you tried backing up the ~/.mozilla folder and deleting it and starting from scratch.(export bookmarks and all)
You might have some bad settings messing it up.

[Arron]

I cant wait for there to be the new Elyssa XFCE! I love Darnya XFCE, and that is after a lot of distro hopping, its my new home. Good luck, i know it is no small task, and I really hope XFCE gains more support to make it a mainstream distro within Mint.

Arron

[merlwiz79]

This may also be your problem.
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77696#p77696

[merlwiz79]

Beta 8 XfCE Daryna is the first Mint I tried. I only ran it it off the cd, but man was it slow! It took almost ten minutes to boot ! Once it was loaded it wasn't super slow, but it was nothing compared to zenwalk live, or vector. Mint XFCE is nice in most ways .Maybe i just got a bad download or burn .if not, it just isn't ready for my comp yet! Hp Compaq D530 P4 2.66 Ghz W/ 512 MB RAM .Happily The Daryna KDE version is excellent And runs quite well In terms of both features and performance.It also ran much faster as a live cd than the xfce version.
I wish the XFCE team all the best of luck with their work!

I never had the KDE CE run faster than XFCE CE on my PC.
P4EE 2.8Ghz FSB 800Mz
1GB RAM DDr400
Custom Built