Nope we where running it headless via the cli. Light up about 10 mosix boxes one time with nothing running on the cluster and then go to one of the nodes and run ifconfig and watch the transfer totals skyrocket.
I am not even discussing LTSP, I am discussing running mosix on LTSP nodes. Yes in our terminal environment we disable all screen savers. Just one opengl screen saver can absorb 35% of the server resources. Cliff Baeseman On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:04, Michael Marschall wrote: > Well if you were running LTSP with Seti then yes you wouls expect that to > happen. Seti is constantly making visual updates and therefore would cause > X traffic from each node all the time. Seti is for distributed computing, > not for thin client, display pushing computing. Finally, LTSP and even > something like Citrix Metaframe it is highly suggested to turn off things > such as screen savers. > > Michael Marschall > President > > Pipeline Networks > 2385 Executive Center Drive Suite 100 > Boca Raton, Florida 33431 > Phone 561.962.2774 > Cell 305.502.8959 > > On 2 Jan 2003, Baeseman, Clifford wrote: > > > I don't remember exactly I think we where just running a copy of seti. > > The problem is that the nodes are basically a big peer to peer > > infrastructure and the amount of network chatter ground everything to a > > stop and totally saturated the switches. If you are just running a few > > nodes on a 100 base network it runs just fine, anything over twenty and > > the traffic really starts to be a issue. > > > > Cliff > > > > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:18, John N wrote: > > > What were you running? > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Baeseman, Clifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:53 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP > > > > > > > > > > Well it is a great idea if you have a gig running on everything. We > > > > tried this on production machines one time and saturated the switches . > > > > We hit total network saturation at about 24 clients. Needless to say > > > > everything came to a grinding halt. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cliff > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:07, John N wrote: > > > > > Great idea - I would add OpenMosix/LTSP (so that idle workstations could > > > > > contribute to overall performance...) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "John McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To: "Mike Hjorleifsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:23 AM > > > > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know what the sales of the Cobalt Qube (now owned by Sun) are. > > > > > > It's operating in a similar space. If Sun's marketing honchos had half > > > a > > > > > > brain they'd be doing an 'Office Qube' running LTSP, StarOffice, and > > > > > > Samba to provide MS-Office in a box. > > > > > > > > > > > > But they haven't, so they won't. > > > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/qube3/ > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:42:29 -0800 > > > > > > "Mike Hjorleifsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > If someone were to provide a turnkey server with a neat little web > > > > > > > interface for LTSP and a list of compatible "terminal" equipment > > > along > > > > > > > with tech support do the folks on THIS LIST think people would by it > > > ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Curious... > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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