[Gllug] nfs, mozilla and file locking

[Richard Huxton]

Nick Warrington wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble with unbelievably slow startup of firefox
> and thunderbird. If I run them as root, they start quickly. However my
> /home is mounted on a NFS volume on a different machine and If I try and
> start them as a normal user the startup is painful (>1min). This all
> used to be fine some months ago.

First thing I'd be tempted to do is: create a new user, move their 
homedir to /var/something and see if FF still does it. If so, then you 
know it's an NFS/networking problem. It certainly sounds like that's 
what it is.

Any other networking problems?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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