LoGD performance under Firebird

[Feyn]

Hello everyone,

Just yesterday I finally broke down and stripped off Netscape 7.0 from my RH9 box and installed Firebird 0.7. I am realizing a measurable performance increase in my day-to-day web activities using Firebird, especially with internal PHP-based database interfaces here at work.

But my LoGD performance has come to a near-standstill. Each page takes a full second to load, meaning forest battles and PvP and trainer battles are excrutiating. When I re-connect via a vanilla copy of mozilla, everything is "standard speed" again.

Firebird seems to have very little customizability, so I don't see any "options" which could help/hurt my performance.

Is anyone here running Firebird 0.7 and playing LoGD with it? I'd like to hear your experiences :)

Best regards,
Feyn

[JCP]

I run Firebird, but I don't do a whole lot of fighting, so I'm not the best person to ask about the game running slower.

[JCP]

Now it's Firefox, but I wonder if these will help:

Speed up page rendering
By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page, even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be longer.

// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);


Enable Pipelining
Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies. To try it out, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);


I haven't tried any of these yet, so I'm not going to vouch for their effectiveness.

[Feyn]

Hello JCP,

Thank you for the prefs.js suggestions. After reading your message and contemplating what would happen, I closed Firebird, added all four lines to my prefs.js file, restarted Firebird, and all of a sudden LoGD is "fast" again.

It almost seems too easy. :shock:

Thank you very much for your help with this issue. Having to re-install Netscape just to play LoGD was silly.

Best regards,
Feyn

[Feyn]

I knew it seemed too easy :D

It turns out there's a memory leak (or similar) with Firebird on my box. After a few hours, performance begins to slow. When I close Firebird and then reopen it, everything is back to normal speed. That explains why JCP's "fix" worked for me -- I had to restart the browser to read-in the prefs file.

:P

Best regards,
Feyn