On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:52:38AM +0100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:39, Knut Yrvin wrote: > > An interesting test about memory usage og LTSP from Jonathan Carter: > > It would be interesting to see the effect of "unifying" the LTSP chroot > with the server (hardlinking identical files in the chroot and server). > This allows linux to share memory between the server and clients. > Provided the server and chroot are running identical distributions, most > disk buffering and libraries can be shared. I bet you would see about > 30M saving for GDM for example...
This will save disk space and perhaps server I/O, but not memory. The clients run programs in the chroot over NFS, on different physical machines, and the server doesn't run programs in the chroot at all normally. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
