Am 16.05.2012 06:18, schrieb Alkis Georgopoulos: > Στις 16/05/2012 05:27 πμ, ο/η Quiliro Ordóñez έγραψε: >> So LTSP does not work on Pentium III as a client? This would make LTSP >> non-viable for me. I thought only X worked on the clients. Is X that heavy? > > LTSP works fine on Pentium II with 128 MB RAM. > But some apps like firefox or openoffice make heavy use of local X RAM > in order to speed things up and prevent roundtrips to the X server. > E.g. I've seen firefox running on thin client (i.e. on the server) using > 300 MB RAM of *local* X RAM to cache images. > There's an option to disable that, but of course it'll slow firefox down > a bit, read more in this bug report: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/137764 > > In order for your clients not to crash you can enable an e.g. 512 MB NBD > swap file, read your distro docs about enabling NBD swap in LTSP. >
That brings me to a question: Currently I'm setting up a new LTSP server based on Suse12.1 and have experimented a lot with LTSP 5. Our PIII-based Dell Optiplex GX110 terminals all have 128 MB RAM, but with the kernel that is tried to be loaded, they crash in the middle of booting. So I put 256 MB into one of them, and it runs flawlessly. However, the terminal on my own desk is a VIA Epia with 256 MB and it crashes when booting, too... As I couldn't find any help, I started using LTSP 4.2 (as I have all the configuration files on the still-running server anyway). Last weekend, it turned out that I cannot use the USB ports on the terminals yet. I tried to activate everything to "mimik" the old server (a perl module for X11 is needed and NBD), but to no avail. Before I had to leave I detected there is an /etc/nbd-server/config.example file which seems not to be activated. So my question is, could it all be due to NBD not being active? How would you investigate? Thanks for your ideas! Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
