i have taken a look on that packages, its copy real iceweasel til
iceweasel_real so when user click iceweasel the script copy the .mozilla
folder to tmp, and call icewasel_real after its done. And when user exit
iceweasel the script copy the .mozilla from tmp back to users home folder..

I like this approach

Best Regards Alf Tonny Bätz


2013/5/15 Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

> [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
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