I am running ViceWM in the Taber school with about 200 active sessions. Most terminals only have 32MB RAM. Users can open as many tabs as they like and the browsers run smooth and quick..
It may use more bandwidth but I have setup multi net so that no more then 15 terminals are on each Gbps NIC. The network is very fast. The only problem I have is with Flash sites. Flash is resource pig on the server side but there is not much that can be done about that. On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:57 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 05:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > 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 ? > > My limited testing showed 'firefox needs lots of memory', fat client, thin > client, stand-alone. > If you google you will see sensible motivation for this behaviour and > benchmarks about browsers. > So I use thin clients with 256M and no swap and stay away from sites that > crash the client. > > There is no benefit in running firefox as a local-app! > If ViceWM keeps the memory load on the server then all rendering is done on > the server resulting in crappy display performance and high network usage all > the time for every ViceVM client > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Royce Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG.
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