I don't know. We use term 170's and they have only 128 mb of ram and firefox never causes me problems on 35+ terminals.
Granted, they use only basic html. PPart of hte problem is flash and other crappy huge page loads. Blocking flash would be a big help for most. I suspect squid can do it. jef peeraer wrote: >Roy Souther schreef: > > >>Does the app need to run on the thin client? As Xavier pointed out >>FireFox is a memory pig and I found that normal desktops running FireFox >>will kill a thin client that does not have a lot of RAM. >> >>I running ViceWM for all terminal desktops and it keeps the FireFox >>memory load on the server. If your XUL app does not need to use local >>devices then maybe ViceWM will do the trick. >> >> >I still don't understand fully, firefox is running on the fatclient but >takes a lot of memory on the thinclient ? > >jef > > >>http://www.silicontao.com/software/ >><http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/>*ViceWM >><http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/>*/ >><http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/> >> >>On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:26 +0100, jef peeraer wrote: >> >> >>>i have an xul app ( remote ) that's intended to run on thinclients. It >>>runs ok on a single client, but on thinclients it's almost unusable. >>>I've googled and found some posts about it, but it's still a bit >>>unclear. Do i have to disable the caching of firefox ? ( which seems to >>>take up a lot of memory on the behalv of x11 ) ? Or maybe i should try >>>to run firefox locally ? >>> >>>jef peeraer >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>>Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >>>opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >>>http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>><http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV> >>>_____________________________________________________________________ >>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>_Royce Souther <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>_ >>_www.SiliconTao.com <http://www.SiliconTao.com>_ >>Let Open Source help your business move beyond. >> >>For security this message is digitally authenticated by _GnuPG >><http://www.gnupg.org>_. >> >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >>opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >>http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_____________________________________________________________________ >>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 >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_____________________________________________________________________ >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 > > > > -- joe auerbach systems administrator pcb / rossman and co 614-523-4150 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
