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-
What they are referring to is the usage of X memory on the thin client, even though the application is running on the server. Every X11 application consumes some memory on the remote X11 display (in this case, the thin client). This is separate from application memory that would hold resources and data not directly pertaining to the display and would stay on the server. Graphics icons, display buffers, etc, can be uploaded by the application to the X11 display for quick refresh at a later time. Firefox apparently uses this functionality a great deal to help with display performance when switching from tab to tab, and eventually the X11 display can run out of memory on the thin client, particularly if it did not have much to spare (e.g. 32MB for kernel + X11). In your particular situation, though, I think we are searching in the dark, and in order to resolve the issue we will need some basic information about the problem. The biggest question to clarify is: What is the actual problem? You mentioned that "It runs ok on a single client, but on thinclients it's almost unusable." Does this mean it runs too slowly, or it crashes too often? -Todd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
