Cool about your nephew. I could also killx on my server when I"m not there...and have top running. That's a good idea.
I assume they're running openoffice and firefox. We haven't done any teaching about available software; we just plopped down the edubuntu instead of the winXP. -peter Harry Sweet wrote: > Hey, my nephew graduated from your school last year. > > Sounds strange. My server occasionally freezes 7.10 and now 8.04, but > that has usually just been Gnome on the server. You can try to use putty > to log in remotely and restart. If that works. > > You can also run top or htop to watch the thing die in realtime. Might tell > you something. > I can see when I run out of memory on my box and what processes are running. > > What software are the kids running when the thing dies? > > > harry sweet > Goshen High School > > >>>> Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/15/2008 12:59 PM >>> >>>> > After months of testing, I made our edubuntu thin client system live > and it froze ... twice... and I can't figure out why. > > We're using Edubuntu 7.10. > We're running a dell poweredge, 2.8ghz p4 (I'm sure it's a 2.something > p4), 1gb ram, raid 1 array of 200GB+ with 5 clients (1ghz p3, 256MB > ram). All 10/100 network equipment. > > When any of the clients boot and log in, it's fast...so nice and fast. > But after the system has been running a few hours and students begin > to use it (and I'm not there). It freezes hard. I *think* it freezes > hard b/c I haven't tested pinging it when it's down. But it doens't > reply to anything including ctrl-alt-bkspace, or ctrl-alt-f1. And I > know the /var/log/messages file stops creating --MARK-- entries > during this time. When I find it frozen, there is video, but no > response to mouse or keyboard. > > In our tests, we only experimented with 1 client. Could 5 clients > create too much demand on our server? I recently installed the ssl > update and rebuilt the images...could I have done something wrong > there? And one more detail: we're posting our username-password info > per computer...it's conceivable that one user might be getting signed > in more than once. Would that do it? Or how about using Adobe Flash 9? > > thx so much, > -peter > Bard High School Early College > NY, NY > >
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