Death of a thousand needles

[mosx86]

So I’ve noticed these days that Firefox and Safari have taken the route of using sqlite dbs to store all their bookmark, history, favicons, etc…

My network home server (10.4.11 serving network homes to 10.4 and 10.5 clients over AFP to ~50 concurrent AFP connections) at times seems to be dying the death of a thousand needles. Slowdown occur where all users get the spinning beach ball. In these moments, AFP will take any upwards 60% of the cpu. Looking at what is being written/read to disk with fslogger, I see that the majority of my rights/reads in these periods are these sqlite-dbs, their journals and the mysterious .dat(someRandomString) and .de(someRandomString) files generated in ~/Library/Safari

We redirect our caches to the local host, but redirecting the bookmarks, history, etc dbs isn’t an option because our users move between machines and those preferences need to follow them. Because of this move to sqlite dbs, I’m wondering if because of this shift to many mini dbs running concurrently across the network, if AFP is not the best choice for network homes and I should consider moving to NFS?

[topnotchchach]

CRAZY!!!

i thought i was the only one with this problem!

i have been working on this for a while and finally narrowed it down. i believe its a mix of updates and upgrades…

my accounts/servers/performance were not a problem for months… until i reimaged and upgraded!

all your issues i have experienced….

my severs were going up to 700%… yes! i have screen shots!!

during the times of 10.5.4-10.5.6 everything was fine. However i upgraded the servers 10.5.8 and the imaged my clients with newest safari and firefox and my problems occurred. It has to be safari…

do not localize the prefs… its the cache folder.

redirect the cache folder to local and your network will be back to normal….
but…

NOW I HAVE THIS PROBLEM…

“word cannot save this document due to a naming or permissions error on the desitnation volume”

this is the directly correlated to the fix. many people have experienced that issue and im trying to work out the kinks as i write.

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