[K12OSN] Friggin' Firefox and K12LSP v5

[bear2bar at netscape.net]

Hi David,

I've had the same problems and it is insane !!!! this was posted earlier 
on and it might help...

Firefox has very aggressive page caching. That will consume RAM over
time. Each ta has a full page cache in history for fast navigation using
the back and forward buttons.

Try running a cron job that stops all firefox apps every night.

There was a thread here earlier about setting the cache to be much
smaller. I tested that and it didn't seem to make much of a difference.
It need to be applied to all users to gain benefits.

set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to "0" using the
about:config and then save the
~/.mozilla/firefox/default<stuff>/preferences.js file into the /etc/skel
directory for new users and push out to all existing users. Be sure
firefox is not running first.

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:41 -0400, bear2bar at netscape.net wrote:

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just upgraded to FC5 and find that after a couple of weeks the 
> > system performance is very slow especially with firefox, any solution?
> > 
> > thks
> > norbert
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dtrask at vcsvikings.org wrote:
> Ok...this is starting to drive me nuts.  As the folks from Hermon (Maine)
> posted a week ago....I am having the same problem with Firefox starting so
> slowly.  In fact, it's so slow that kids are clicking more than once in 
> an effort to bring it up.  Once loaded it runs fun....it's launching it
> that's the problem.  I have a dual server setup using DHCP load balancing
> and failover and a Samba/LDAP server for authentication.  With K12LTSP v4
> and a lesser version of Firefox....there were no issues.  I'm not even
> sure where to look at the moment....it's almost as if it's not being
> cached in memory on the server and is loading a seperate instance each
> time.  I'm willing to dig a lot deeper, but need some ideas.  Anyone?
>
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Director
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
>
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