Mats Lundqvist schrieb:
> 2007/2/8, Eilert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hej Mats,
>>
>>> 512mb ram? 256 for cache? I seriously doubt I need that much.
>> I wouldn't bet on it - we've got some older P1 thin clients with only a
>> few MB RAM. Sure, they boot. Sure, the user may log in sometimes.
>>
>> But sooner or later those terminals will crash if not helped by swap
>> memory on the server. Yes, with swap memory they run flawlessly.
>>
> Swap memory on the server? How did you do that? Swapfiles in the nfs export?
> I imagine it would be hard getting them to use individual swap files.

In ltsp.conf just set "USE_NBD_SWAP = Yes"

I've got a number of older clients which do not run properly with the 
latest versions of LTSP, so they boot with an older kernel (to be 
configured in dhcp.conf) and use NFS-swap.

>> By the way, we found that slower terminals have problems when the server
>> has a high load. Sometimes working on them becomes nearly impossible as
>> they react so slowly. Other terminals still react normally, though
>> screen update times rise. In an environment with more than, well...,
>> about 20 - 25 clients I would not recommend to use slower machines than PII.
>>
> 
> Could this be because of NIC thoughput beeing limited by cpu power? I
> mean, server load is not connected to the clients working slowly. If
> server load is to blame, then all of the clients should feel the
> slowness (is that even a word? ;) ).
> 

Err - I'm not a native speaker :-) but it sounds nice, doesn't it Jim?

Ok, yes, I too think it's that NIC throughput problem.


Regards

Rolf

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