[Nigel Barker] > However, I thought they were already implemented on real skolelinux > installs. At least they were on Lenny, I think..
Some of it is already in Skolelinux, but not the cache tuning. [Klaus Knopper] > We used a different approach in Skolelinux-RLP: On start of > firefox/iceweasel, we copy the local .mozilla directory containing > personal bookmarks, a (small) cache and other db/sqlite files to the > /tmp-ramdisk in a per-user/per-process directory, and on quitting > firefox, we copy them back to the users NFS home directory. > > Firefox tends to exessively write on several files, not only cache > data, and in case NFS does not catch up in time, you get a > "bufferbloat" self-denial-of-service. From our tests, only exluding > these files from NFS writes was able to fix a "completely stalled" > > 20 users NFS setup, where pupils were not able to login anymore when > more than ten users were running firefox. "Outsourcing" the .mozilla > directory helped. > > For the firefox starter script, we made a package, it's still > available at http://rp.skolelinux.de/packages/firefox-tuning/ Interesting approach. Perhaps something we should replicate for Jessie? Where is the source package for the firefox-tuning package? The directory only contain the .deb. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
