Thank you Atro, That is very promising, I will look into it. I remember tweaking ff preferences more network friendly earlier, but this particular one I can't recall.
I'd be happy to fix the ff issue, but I still think there is something more generic also. Propably it is not NAT related, but I may try it anyhow to be on the safe side. br, jukka Sent from my iPhone > On 21.12.2013, at 0.28, Atro Tossavainen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:17:05AM +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: >> >> These hangs can last 10+ seconds over WAN, but not quite a minute at least >> today. However, when I straced firefox, there are indications that a >> missing /etc/ld.so.nohwcap file and installed "preload" package may be >> causing at least part of the problem. Maybe the system is trying speed up >> things by loading files to memory, but the loaded files are not local. I >> need to study this a bit further. > > My experience (going back a few years, at this point) is that Firefox > is painfully slow when your home directory is on AFS, even when the > client and servers are connected through a gigabit LAN. > > I think it has to do with the sqlite databases that Firefox is using. > > If you google "firefox slow network home directory", you can find a few > Mozilla bugs where the context is that the home directories are on AFP > (Macs with Mac networking). > > Nathan Froyd had this to offer in one such discussion: > (This is in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918612) > > "My guess is that xFetch and xUnfetch don't work properly across remote > shares. I think sqlite should be fixed, but we'd need a short-term solution. > Maybe there's an SQLite VFS for Unix that DTRT with remote drives...does > setting the boolean pref storage.nfs_filesystem to true help out at all?" > > To which Steven Michaud replied: > > "> does setting the boolean pref storage.nfs_filesystem to true help out at > all? > > Yes! It cleared the problem right up. > > You probably want to try this, Marty. Note that the setting doesn't already > exist -- you need to create it in about:config." > > Marco Bonardo comments: > > "I think there are various issues here. > > First bug 719952 shows that we have a long story of problems on remote > shares, basically most remote FS are bogus and Sqlite makes its best, but > won't be able to work flawlessy cause the FS lies to it." > > I'm getting a headache already. > > Cheers, Atro > -- > Atro Tossavainen, Chairman of the Board > Infinite Mho Oy, Helsinki, Finland > tel. +358-44-5000 600, http://www.infinitemho.fi/ > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
