I'll just paste in what seems to be the common problem here amongst 4 of my schools, when there is a full class of ~35 students logging on and trying to launch Firefox (these are all different people sending me e-mails):
----- Just had a class in here and they went on Firefox, it took about 4 minutes to get them all on. First 5 popped up right away then it started to slow down. Had 3 stations that after everyone was in I had them click on the browser icon and they go right on. --- Four or five students were able to start working in typingmaster (within Firefox). For the rest, it told them they were already in Firefox. --- It took 15 minutes for 20 computers to logon to Firefox. The first one took 10 seconds, the next 20 seconds, the 6th one to try and come up had the "Already Open" error. After 20 minutes I went back into Apps/firefox with the remaining workstations and all but two went in. Workstations s8, s9 have the error message. --- Tested Firefox today with a class of 20. About half could get on 1 at a time, the other half froze up the desktop and kids couldn't even logoff Ubuntu. ----- After a ton of research for the past 3 days, I've come up with the following potential fixes which have sped things up just a bit, but definitely do not solve the core "Firefox is already running" (and most of the slowness) issues: http://lns.wikidot.com/firefox3ltspoptimizations These are all beefy HP Proliant servers, 2xdualcore Xeon CPUs, 8GB RAM, so horsepower shouldn't be an issue. Gutsy + FF2 worked beautifully, this only started happening at the beginning of this school year, after I had upgraded all servers to Hardy over Summer break. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm not the only one having this issue (at least I really hope I'm not). Sincerely, Jordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
