Is it possible that the primary DNS server is not responding and a timeout must occur each lookup before switching to the alternate? This type of external wait delay would not be affected by the speed of the 8x2GHZ system.
--- On Thu, 10/2/08, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: system crawling.... > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 4:48 AM > Hi, > > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: > > > I wasn't able to authenticate on a text terminal > either, so I couldn't > > run top to see what was going on. The disks > weren't really spinning much > > either. > > > > Then about ten minutes later something freed up, and > I'm in now. No > > idea what it was, but with 8 x 2GHz cores and 16 gigs > of ram, you'd > > think it would be able to get through standard ubuntu > init stuff without > > issues. > > Agreed. Can you look back through /var/log/syslog and > /var/log/messages > during the time and see if there's anything that might > indicate the source > of the issue? > > One possibility might be a rogue process hogging all system > RAM which > eventually might have been killed by the kernel (that kill > would be > logged). There are many more possibilities though. > > > Related to my first problem though, why are the thin > clients dependent > > on the server being able to launch gdm itself? X on > the server shouldn't > > even be necessary. > > As far as I know, in LTSP5 gdm is not needed. It was in > LTSP4 because gdm > was what the clients connected to. However, as the client > runs its own > display manager and starts a session over ssh, I don't > think gdm running > is necessary. Presumably you've observed something > that makes you think it > is? > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
