Peter Childs wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Peter Childs wrote:
Tom Griffing wrote:
Peter;
Sounds like the terminal itself is locking. Either a runaway process or the kernel is locking up. You should focus on the software running in the terminal - instead of the software on the server.
I would try using less swap space - say 8 or 16 MB. You say your ST320's have 22 MB RAM? Was that a typo? The only ones I have seen have either 32 MB or 64 MB.
I'd be interested in hearing or your solution.
Hmm I'm still looking for a solution. I've reduced the swap space to 32Mb since 128Mb was taking up alot of hard disk space on my server (not that I've got a lack of that...) And at this point if I was dealing with a normal office I'd give up. But I'm not dealling with a normal office (24x7 operation on some desks). The Clients will usally run for about 2 days with out freezing but then you can be unlucky and they will freeze in the login screen (xdm) For the moment not using OpenOffice is a good way to avoid freezing but somtime that will work! But one of the worse bits about it freezing is that you've got nothing to debug!
Peter Childs
Tom
22 Mb is correct that what they say on boot. And Free run as a Local App agrees (give or take a bit)
total used free shared buffers Mem: 25996 25284 712 0 72 Swap: 131064 0 131064 Total: 157060 25284 131776
I put the swap space on because they did seam to be running out of memory. I have tried a number of different values but smaller would save me alot of hard disk space! I'm thinking the problem may be X I currently dislike X and think it needs a complete re-write. Even fedora is in the press for shelving the latest version of X so pehaps its time somthing better was written. (I wish I had time...) But since X does not need to be running for them to crash I think the kernel is more likly. Somone wants the boot facts hidden so it looks like I've got to mess with the Kernel anyway... I thought the problem may be the sound card driver I'm now using the sb.o driver since the c5335(whatever) driver kept freezing nasd.
Well at least its somwhere to start...
Peter Childs
I have a number of thin clients that work quite well most of the time but they are in the habbit of freezing. And I NEED ideas as to how to stop it.
Its random the client will freeze and will respond to nothing no pings, ssh, keyboard, mouse. It will even happern at a random point durring boot but not very often and not consitatly. (so I don't think its X) They clients run quite well about 80% of the time or more.
They will consisantly freeze if you open Open Office and go straight to the File Menu. If you visit the help menu first it will work about 50% of the time. Once it has worked once it will not freeze (except in the random fasion until you quit open office and reenter)
Ok so what are the thin cleints?
ST320s with 22Mb RAM running LTSP 4 with sound (using nasd) and local apps using ldap (which seams alot better than nis once you have it working. I would even go to surgesting switching to LDAP for a future version of LTSP!) (These have 128Mb of NFS Swap which I don't think they use)
Server running Debian Sarge (I think) Openoffice 1.1.1 or 1.1.0 I've even tryied upgrading...
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