David, That is a very good point. As far as what I've seen, this issue is focussed on ext3/fsync issues. It's good to hear that people using other filesystems aren't experiencing the FF issue we're discussing - it makes it a bit more likely that we're finding out what's really going on here.
Thanks for the input, Jordan David Burgess wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jordan Erickson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All, >> >> I have been making some headway with the Firefox 3/LTSP issue. When we >> start looking at SQLite under FF3, you start to see some reasoning why >> we get the slowdown/lockup issues we've been seeing. >> >> In a nutshell, check out the bug reports, especially regarding fsync. >> This is (probably) the issue, especially regarding LTSP multi-user >> setups hammering the ext3 filesystem, causing it to flush its cache >> every time fsync is called by SQLite (which is many many times, >> per-user, especially during profile creation). >> > > All talk of SQLite and fsync is over my head, but FWIW, my server uses > XFS and I've had no issues specifically with FF, other than that all > clients get unresponsive/sluggish when somebody attempts to play a > youtube video fullscreen, but that doesn't sound like what people are > describing in this thread. > > My point being that the FF3 problems could well be an ext3-only issue, > as Jordan sort-of implied. Or would other filesystems flush their > cache in the same way? > > db > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
