Hey John, I run 8.04.2 (i386) on servers with half as much ram as yours, and haven't had any showstopping issues like what you're describing. I ran into issues with the 64-bit server, but that was back in the Edgy/Fiesty days, and I'm sure most of them have been fixed by now. It was also not performance related.
Is your server NIC recognized at its full capacity (hopefully 1Gbit/sec)? Use 'ethtool' to find out. You're using the -server kernel right? Also, let us know about any customizations, including nbd swap, any lts.conf parms, etc. Cheers, Jordan/Lns john wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to migrate from 7.04 to 8.04 since last fall. I can > only do it during downtime at our school. I have this week while kids > are on break to try and get the new system in. My problem is that I > can't seem to scale the LTSP installation based on 8.04 past 6-8 thin > clients before the server crashes. The server is running 16 gigs ram/ > AMD 64 image with Ntavo 6030 thin clients each with 512M ram. The thin > clients are rolled with the i386 image. > > I can't find anything in the logs that shows me where the problem > lies. I've been running 7.04 successfully for a couple of years now > so I feel like the problem lies with 8.04 somewhere. I am trying to > decide whether to can 8.04 and begin working on 8.10. Or perhaps > retry 8.04 under 32 bit with the Server-Image kernel for larger memory > support. Can any one give me some guidance? Did you make 8.04 work > just fine (if so did you do it under 32 or 64) or did you end up going > for the latest and the greatest? All things being equal I'd prefer to > run 8.04 since it'll be supported till 2011. > > Thanks for any advice. > > John > > -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blog.logicalnetworking.net ZDNet: Normal people like KDE4 under Linux better than Windows Microsoft silently installs Firefox extension through OS update FTC Warns of Fake FTC E-Mail Virus -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
