Thanks John; I will try and let all know the results. I was trying NFS swap only which will not work with LTSP 4.2.
Thanks for your valueable input. Thanks & regards Ashish Nabira Sun Microsystems Ph: +91 80 66930854 "Work is worship." John P. New wrote On 11/02/06 19:09,: > Ashish, > > If you are using 4.2, NFS Swap will _not_ work. LTSP 4.2 uses NBD and > the ltspswap daemon, a totally different system. The USE_NFS_SWAP and > SWAPFILE_SIZE in your lts.conf will _not_ enable swap in 4.2, so you can > remove those lines. > > Very roughly, to enable swap in 4.2, you have to: > > 1) On the server, install ltspswapd, found in the localdev support > package, > 2) Configure ltspswapd, modify /etc/sysconfig/ltspswapd, > 3) Add USE_NBD_SWAP=Y to lts.conf, and > 4) Reboot the terminal > > There are more detailed instructions found at > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/SwapNbd#Configuring_Swap_over_NBD_in_LTS > > John > > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:38 +0530, Ashish Nabira wrote: > >>Hi; >> >>Sorry for less details. >> >>I am using ltsp 4.2 on SUSE 10.1.My clients are having PXE bootrom. >>Actually the clients with 32MB ram works fine, with/without enabling >>SWAP. Problem comes with 16MB RAM thin clients. >> >>My lts.conf file is like this >> >> [Default] >> SERVER = 192.168.0.1 >> XSERVER = auto >> X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = "Microsoft" >> X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/ttyS0" >> X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 50 >> X_MOUSE_BUTTONS = 3 >> USE_XFS = N >> USE_NFS_SWAP = Y >> SWAPFILE_SIZE = 64m >> SCREEN_01 = shell >> SCREEN_02 = startx >> >>I tried NFS_SERVER, SWAP_SERVER options also, but not able to make it. I >>think it's hanging on using NFS swap. It give message NFS SERVER: >>192.168.0.1 Not responding, Still trying.BUt the problem is only with >>16MB RAM clients. >> >>Thanks & regards >>Ashish Nabira >>Sun Microsystems >>Ph: +91 80 66930854 >>"Work is worship." >> >> >>John P. New wrote On 10/30/06 02:09,: >> >>>Sudev, >>> >>>Swap is configured _much_ later in the boot process than where I think >>>these clients are hanging (right after the loading of the kernel into >>>memory), so I don't think enabling swap will have any effect on this >>>problem. >>> >>>As for swap, NFS is used in LTSP 4.1 and earlier, while NBD and >>>ltspswapd are used in 4.2 and later. Ashish didn't specify what version >>>he was using, so adding those lines to lts.conf may or may not work. See >>>http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/SwapNbd >>> >>>John P. New >>>London, Ontario, Canada >>> >>> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 06:02 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On 29/10/06, Ashish Nabira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>I want to put some 16MB ram machines into existing setup of 32/64 MB RAM >>>>>mahcines. All setup is working fine, except the delay in finding proper >>>>>display for client machines.( Some are having old display cards ) >>>>> >>>>>BUt when I boot 16MB machines they simply hang while booting on the step >>>>>showing "uncompressing Linux booting kernel" >>>> >>>>You have to enable NFS SWAP by adding something like below in the host >>>>section of lts.conf: >>>>USE_NFS_SWAP = YES >>>>SWAPFILE_SIZE = 64M >>>> >>>> >>>>HTH >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >>>Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >>>Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >>>http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >>>_____________________________________________________________________ >>>Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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