Firefox display of LinkedIn slow on Fedora 10
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Jul 23 23:47:03 UTC 2009
Michael Eager wrote:
> Hi --
>
> When I try to open a page on LinkedIn in Firefox or
> Konqueror, it takes forever to display. Often, the
> session times out before the page is shown. I have
> not noticed any other sites which have similar problems.
>
> A Google search shows that a number of people have encountered
> similar problems. There were conjectures that the problem
> has to do with routers or network settings. There are a few
> suggestions to reduce the TCP MTU size, and some people
> claimed this fixed their problem. When I followed these
> suggestions, it doesn't improve display of LinkedIn pages,
> but it did screw up display of other sites.
>
> On a Windows XP system running under VMware on the same
> hardware, Firefox displays LinkedIn pages with no delay.
>
> Since the network connection and router is the same,
> it's not a problem with the physical hardware. Since
> the same problem appears on both Firefox and Konqueror,
> it's not a problem with the browser display engine.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion how to eliminate this annoyance?
>
MTU sounds good, the usual "real cause" is some router not passing or honoring
the "can't fragment" ICMP. If you are running from a VM, behind a tunnel, etc,
etc, this might be your problem, and since there's a simple solution it's worth
a try.
Look at the "mss M" section of the "man route" output, and it explains this
better. Using the route command you can set a route to the problem site, via
your default router, and only for that route use a smaller MTU. So "mss 1400"
would be part of the command line.
I learned that so long ago I can't remember details, but the capability is
there. Let us know if it helps.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list