On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Anthony Luscre <[email protected]> wrote: > > As we start the school year the Internet access has been painfully slow on > our 3 LTSP setups (1- Fedora 9, 1 Fedora 11 and 1 Edubuntu 9) > Firefox continuously hangs or will not load saying it has already loaded.
This is a known problem. It occurs if you run FF 3.5 and improperly shutdown (ie hard reset) A solution is to delete 2 files places.sqlite /places.sqlite-journal http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite you can find them like this $find /home/username/.mozilla -name '*places*' Be warned you will lose bookmarks if you do this!! > HELP, if I cannot improve performance in the next few weeks, the teacher's > protests will force me to abandon all LTSP at our district! Use Opera. It is fast. > > 1. I have tried setting FireFox to run as a Local App on clients but I am > not sure if they are in fact running locally. Is there a way to tell for > sure? run it on a client under user ABC. Then on the server ps -U ABC | grep firefox if nothing comes up then it's local. If it does then it's not local. > > 2. I have tried tweaking FireFox's about:config settings. The problem is I > do not know how to change the about:config settings on all 400 user accounts > at our HS or 60 lab accounts at elementary. Does anyone know of a way to > "push" out these FireFox changes to existing accounts? This is possible. Search this list. It has come up many times before. I think it was a .js file somewhere in /usr/lib/firefox-x.xx/defaults > > 3. Are there any other potential software or services that I can delete, > stop or tweak for better performance? > > 4. Can fat clients help my situation? Only if they have 512MB (128 and even 256 is not really enough). I am using DRBL and I like it but my clients are brand new. > > My Server Hardware is dual Quad core processors with 8 to 13 Gig of RAM. > Clients are diskless Dell GX-240's with 128 to 256 MB of RAM -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
