[3699] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of 2002-01-15 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Jan 15 18:21:44 2003
Message-Id: <200301152321.SAA10948@athenaphobia.mit.edu>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: [3697] in Release_7.7_team
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:21:40 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
>4. Mozilla
>
>Bob is now our infoagents locker maintainer. We build mozilla from
>source now. Mozilla 1.2.1 is available for testing; running it from
>AFS seems unacceptably slow on some Sun hardware, but it seems like
>local mirroring may solve that problem. (Exercise for someone to try:
>add "infoagents" to /etc/athena/local-lockers.conf on a dev cell
>Ultra, run /etc/athena/local-lockers and verify that infoagents is
>mirrored local, and see if mozilla-1.2.1 is still too slow.)
I tried the exercise. It took the time from typing "mozilla-1.2.1[Enter]"
to the MIT homepage displaying down from 51 seconds to 35 seconds on
defender, an Ultra 10 in the test cluster. The second time I ran it from
local disk, it ran in 24 seconds, which is about the same amount of time
it took to bring up the default mozilla version. Note that I had to give
it tokens to run local-lockers for some things in infoagents to be mirrored;
I assume we'll be able to mirror less than the whole locker to just get
mozilla when we do this for real.
Mitch
