Brian Nitz wrote:
> Rich,
>
> I'm working on a on an updated Sun Ray Optimization guide for Solaris
> Nevada builds. Even though SRSS+NV isn't a supported configuration,
> I'm glad to hear that others are using Sun Ray on Nevada builds. Here
> are a few things I would recommend:
>
> - Make sure the xscreensaver hacks are disabled.
> Since it's possible some of your users have Xscreensaver hacks
> enabled in their home directory, they may be consuming considerable
> resources even when they are away from their desk and their session is
> detached from a DTU. the easiest way to prevent graphical hacks from
> running on your server is:
> mv /X11/lib/xscreensaver/hacks /X11/lib/xscreensaver/hacks.disabled
>
> - Turn off tracker file indexing (This came into the builds before
> proper kernel file monitoring was available, so the fall back is a
> particularly inefficient file change polling mechanism.) To disable:
>
> Select preferences->Sessions
> Uncheck all items containing the word "Tracker".
>
> If you want to disable tracker for everyone, remove these files:
> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker
>
>
> FireFox Memory consumption settings:
> By default, Firefox 2.0 will allow its memory cache to grow very large
> (several Gigabytes!) and keep things such as closed tabs in the cache...
> just in case the user should want to unclose or retrieve a tab. Each
> user can change the default cache behavior as follows:
>
> * Create or edit a user.js file in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*/
> * Add the following lines to user.js:
>
> user pref("browser.cache.memory.enable",true); user
> pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", NNNN);
> True enables the cache and NNNN represents the maxiumum browser memory
> capacity.
>
>
> If you would like to make these changes system wide, make the following
> changes:
>
> * Edit /usr/lib/firefox/greprefss/all.js and add these lines:
> pref("browser.cache.memory.enable",true);
> pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", NNNN);
> True enables the cache and NNNN represents the maxiumum browser memory
> capacity.
>
> * Remove any user specific browser cache settings in individual
> user.js files.
>
>
>
>
> Please let me know if these help.
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Thanks for the tips, they're useful for a regular desktop as well.
James
