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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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
