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

[Donaldson Jeffrey]

Thanks Steve. I'll try adding a local-settings.js with the two general 
configs and seeing if that helps. Just out of curiosity, if one of your 
students goes to about:config or about:cache, do they see the settings?


On 11/16/2011 01:22 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
> That does look fine.  So the one difference we have is that in 
> /etc/firefox/prefs we put the 2 lines
>
> pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
> pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg");
>
> in a separate file we call local-settings.js, rather than within the 
> firefox.js.  I'm assuming everything in that folder gets read and this 
> shouldn't make any difference, but it's the only difference I can see 
> at this point.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey 
> <jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us <mailto:jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us>> wrote:
>
>     I don't believe it to be a syntax issue, but here's the file
>     before running the byteshift on it.
>
>     On 11/16/2011 12:43 PM, Rippl, Steve wrote:
>>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <tel:360%20841%202730>
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Regards,
>>         Jeff Donaldson
>>         Data Services Manager
>>         Newark Charter School
>>         (302) 369-2001 ext:425  <tel:%28302%29%20369-2001%20ext%3A425>
>>         jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us  <mailto:jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Steve Rippl
>>     Technology Director
>>     Woodland Public Schools
>>     360 841 2730 <tel:360%20841%202730>
>
>     -- 
>     Regards,
>     Jeff Donaldson
>     Data Services Manager
>     Newark Charter School
>     (302) 369-2001 ext:425  <tel:%28302%29%20369-2001%20ext%3A425>
>     jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us  <mailto:jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Steve Rippl
> Technology Director
> Woodland Public Schools
> 360 841 2730

-- 
Regards,
Jeff Donaldson
Data Services Manager
Newark Charter School
(302) 369-2001 ext:425
jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us

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