[Nigel Barker]
> However, I thought they were already implemented on real skolelinuxSome of it is already in Skolelinux, but not the cache tuning.
> installs. At least they were on Lenny, I think..
[Klaus Knopper]
> We used a different approach in Skolelinux-RLP: On start ofInteresting approach. Perhaps something we should replicate for Jessie?
> 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/
Where is the source package for the firefox-tuning package? The
directory only contain the .deb.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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