[K12OSN] Sky high load average with FF and CentOS?

[Nadav Kavalerchik]

just wanted to add...

we recently found, one school having only 14 terminal with the same
server setup as all others (we replicate the server with clonizilla)
to have Firefox 3.0.1 hang the server and the terminals for long
periods of time.
moving back to Firefox 2.0.0.15 solved it.

still, we do not know what was the issue. if we find it will keep you posted.

:-)

On 10/17/08, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> Digging up an old thread...
>
> Just ran in to this yesterday and was able to get otherwise
> recalcitrant VIA video in HP t5125 thin clients to use the native via
> driver w/:
>
> XSERVER="via"
> X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = "HWCursor false"
> X_DEVICE_OPTION_02 = "SWCursor true"
>
> Found via:
> http://www.lug-kr.de/wiki/ThinClient
>
> Das ist gut!
>
> --
> Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
> 503-257-1562
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:42 AM, David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Lewis,
>>
>> Thanks, another clue to the puzzle.  I use the mini-itx boards which
>> were based on the VIA Epia 533 Eden.  This uses the Vesa driver it
>> seems. And attempts to force it use something else have not been
>> successful.  But .. all these little pieces are useful.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dave Hopkins
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Lewis Holcroft <lewis at pcc.com> wrote:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> We are having this FF3 slowness issue also.
>>>
>>> We found the workstations that use the vesa driver create much more load
>>> that those that use other video drivers.
>>>
>>> Lewis
>>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2008, at 4:26 PM, David Hopkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks!  I'll try Opera with some test users (anything else will get
>>>> me 'shot' by teachers).  In the meantime, I have query about k12ltsp
>>>> repos ... are they down again?  yum is failing with a metadata
>>>> mismatch, and yum clean metadata or yum clean all isn't correcting it.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Dave Hopkins
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Terrell Prude' Jr.
>>>> <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A better word:
>>>>> Konqueror
>>>>>
>>>>> It comes with the distro already, is quite a fine browser, and works
>>>>> with
>>>>> the FF plugins.  It is my main Internet browser for that reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> --TP
>>>>>
>>>>> Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in one word :
>>>>>> Opera
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM, David Hopkins
>>>>>> <dahopkins429 at gmail.com
>>>>>> <mailto:dahopkins429 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i tested firefox 3 and it is almos 3 times faster then v2 and
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  takes less
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> memory
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On my EL5 systems, this has not been the case at all :(  As
>>>>>> mentioned,
>>>>>>  I tested the load that launching each creates on the system (no
>>>>>>  plugins and with plugins) and FF3 just crushes my K12LTSP EL5 system.
>>>>>>  Doesn't matter if it is a 32bit or 64bit system.  I don't know why,
>>>>>>  but v2 performs much much better than v3.  Perhaps at some points
>>>>>> I'll
>>>>>>  try and dig deeper, but right now I just have to have things ready
>>>>>> for
>>>>>>  the school which starts tomorrow morning at 7:30.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Sincerely,
>>>>>>  Dave Hopkins
>>>>>>
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