Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-24 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
Firefox does like to cache things in your profile directory (images, web pages and such) and over a WAN this might not have the desired effect. In some cases, it might be faster to simply retrieve these items again from the Internet instead of going out over the WAN back to your profile in AFS. On

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-21 Thread Jukka Tuominen
Andrew, I now tested the 1.6.6pre1 from the ppa repository, but couldn't see any obvious improvements on the issues my configuration has. But you did help me by suggesting to use "strace" to find out the possible causes. Thanks once again! br, jukka >> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:28:58 -0600 >> And

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 09:33 +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: > Thank you Atro, > That is very promising, I will look into it. I remember tweaking ff > preferences more network friendly earlier, but this particular one I can't > recall. > > I'd be happy to fix the ff issue, but I still think there

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-21 Thread Atro Tossavainen
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: > Thank you Atro, > That is very promising, I will look into it. I remember tweaking ff > preferences more network friendly earlier, but this particular one I can't > recall. If you read the whole discussion, the storage.nfs_files

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-21 Thread Jukka Tuominen
Thank you Atro, That is very promising, I will look into it. I remember tweaking ff preferences more network friendly earlier, but this particular one I can't recall. I'd be happy to fix the ff issue, but I still think there is something more generic also. Propably it is not NAT related, but

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-20 Thread Atro Tossavainen
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:17:05AM +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: > > These hangs can last 10+ seconds over WAN, but not quite a minute at least > today. However, when I straced firefox, there are indications that a > missing /etc/ld.so.nohwcap file and installed "preload" package may be > causing a

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-20 Thread Jukka Tuominen
These hangs can last 10+ seconds over WAN, but not quite a minute at least today. However, when I straced firefox, there are indications that a missing /etc/ld.so.nohwcap file and installed "preload" package may be causing at least part of the problem. Maybe the system is trying speed up things by

[OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-20 Thread Andrew Deason
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:28:58 -0600 > Andrew Deason wrote: > > > But how do you know if this is a problem for you at all? Usually the > > most user-visible symptom is that access to AFS hangs while a client > > is trying to write to AFS, but a lot of different things can cause > > that. I should