Anyone come across anything like this and/or have any advice? I have ltsp_core-3.0.7-0, ltsp_kernel-3.0.5-0, ltsp_x_core-3.0.4-0, and ltsp_x336_svga-3.0.0-0 on RedHat 8.0
I have one laptop running as an LTSP terminal using the ltsp-wireless package. It is a Toshiba Satellite 110CT with a Chips&Technology 65548 video chip and 24MB RAM. It uses the "chips" driver in XFree86 v4 and the SVGA driver in XFree86 v3. The X server seems to be buggy for this machine. If I display a page in Mozilla containing PNG images, such as http://www.bolis.com/amillar/pg/rdamh/radio-amateur-handbook.html the X server will chew up all its memory and in about 30 seconds, lock up the terminal. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp won't kill it. The hardware has to be reset. This is in a standard LTSP setup with Mozilla running on the server; no local apps running on the terminal. It seems some X operation initiated by Mozilla is enough to trigger this problem. By putting the terminal in run level 3 and starting X on another VT, I could verify that the memory is being consumed like there is a memory leak. I tried adding swap space, first by NFS swap and then by local IDE swap. It still eats up the memory including the swap space; it just takes longer (60 seconds) to freeze up. This only happens on this one terminal; my other terminals can view the same things without any problems like this. I tried an experiment with the "Xnest" program, creating a new X server window and displaying Mozilla in it. In this situation, the problem does not occur! This reinforces my suspicion that there is a bug in the Chips X Server and Xnest is masking it through its virtualization of the display. Unfortunately Xnest isn't a good solution because it is not resizable, needs a second window manager, and has some keyboard quirks. I tried copying Xnest from my server as a local app, but it wouldn't run on the terminal because it complained about incompatible GLIBC versions. Even if that did work, I'm not sure if I could get it to initiate the XDMCP request. Replacing it with another laptop using a different X server is obvious, but I'm trying to make do with what I have. My next thought is to run vncviewer as a terminal local app connecting to an xinetd-launched vncserver, but that sounds like a nasty hack I'd rather avoid. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks - Alan -- Alan Millar --==> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <==-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
