On 19/09/13 13:56, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Στις 19/09/2013 04:55 πμ, ο/η Michael Pope έγραψε: >> Is there a way to run thunderbird on the client in a sandbox so that it >> doesn't crash my whole X session and throw the thin client off the >> network? I've tried running through ssh -X but that crashed my thin >> client also. > > How much RAM does the client have? Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice etc > might need e.g. 500 MB of *local* RAM for caching X pixmaps, even if > they're running on the server... > > > I.e. it sounds like an "out of local memory for X pixmaps" issue, so try > setting > NBD_SWAP=True in lts.conf, and > SIZE=512 in /etc/ltsp/nbdswapd.conf. > > (verify that it works by issuing `free` locally on the client) > > Once it hits swap though it takes forever to start moving again (it freezes the keyboard & mouse until memory is back out of swap). When I say forever I mean I had to leave it for a good 10 minutes before it started to move again, but it did eventually clear out the swap space and memory and it was nice and fast again.
So I should upgrade all my thin clients to 2GB at least I suppose. RAM is cheap and time isn't. from Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _____________________________________________________________________ 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
