Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> I've experienced this at all 3 sites so far (there are more to deploy) - > open OpenOffice Writer, select Tools -> Gallery, drag/drop and move > around a bunch of high-quality clipart images onto the new document. > Watch it slow to a crawl and eventually die. > > Also, open Firefox and visit any site with incredibly intensive graphics > (like Jim's site a long time ago - not sure if it's still up). Watch > xrestop's output progress to the total amount of memory on the client, > and eventually crash it. This problem seems to be one which can only be fixed individually in each application (openoffice, firefox, etc.) or in the X server code. Neither is particularly easy to do. A bug was opened against firefox, and they seem to have a fix in firefox v3, but there's no obvious sign of that getting to firefox v2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260 An alternative solution proposed by someone in the X community was a SHIM file which seems to clear out the pixmaps. I'm not sure how the application would react to this but I guess firefox or openoffice crashing might be better than the thin client crashing. Jim K has posted the code here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2007-December/003060.html I haven't had time to try this out myself, but if you have time and inclination, please do and let us know how it goes. If firefox v3 fixes it, I guess that fix will extend to thunderbird which has also had this problem. Konqueror and Opera apparently don't show the issue. OpenOffice seems to be the next application that needs fixing. Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
