Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

[Rippl, Steve]

That should work, we have root:root 644 and that works.  Have you tried
commenting out all the javascript in /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg
just to ensure it isn't a syntax error in the file itself causing it to
complain?



On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us
> wrote:

>  Steve,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I have user and group setup with nobody:nogroup and
> 755 permissions. Is this wrong? How do you have your permissions setup?
> Currently we don't have it setup as a local app. Thanks for your help!
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 11/16/2011 11:31 AM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <
> jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've been trying for a few days now to get Firefox to cache pages to /tmp
>> locally for all users. I updated to Firefox 7, then edited the firefox.js
>> in /etc/firefox/pref to include these lines -
>>
>> pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);   (supposed to tell FF not to
>> worry about byteshift)
>> pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
>>
>> I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in
>> /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1.
>>
>>
>
>  This is what we do (to lock down network settings and the like) and it
> works.  The only problems I can think of are permissions issues on
>  /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg (can the user read it?) and whether you
> have an error in the JavaScript in the .cfg file?  Then again this is all
> run on the server for us (no local apps), are you running Firefox as a
> local app?
>
>  For what it's worth, we found that many apps and even the Gnome desktop
> itself didn't work that well with nfs mounted home folders for the
> students.  We've since moved to having real local folder on each of the
> LTSP server (we have multiple load balanced) and we use csync (
> http://www.csync.org/) to synchronize those with the central file server
> on login/logout and every 10 minutes they're logged in.  Performance went
> up dramatically and the load on the file server is almost nothing.
>
>
>
>
>  --
> Steve Rippl
> Technology Director
> Woodland Public Schools
> 360 841 2730
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jeff Donaldson
> Data Services Manager
> Newark Charter School(302) 369-2001 ext:425jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us
>
>


-- 
Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 841 2730
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