[Gllug] nfs, mozilla and file locking

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Nick Warrington wrote:
> 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.

They take a good 30 seconds to start for me from a local /home, and
combining that with NFS, I'm not surprised at all.

Rich.

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