Re: [Ltsp-discuss] booting stalled

2008-01-08 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Jan 8, 2008 10:03 AM, Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, On Mo, 2008-01-07 at 21:31 +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: While LTSP development is focused on LTSP 5, I would argue that there's not a significant benefit *to users* of version 5 over version 4.2. Therefore, in many (most?)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PAM and LTSP

2007-12-10 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Dec 9, 2007 11:47 AM, Thierry Blanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to limit the users to open too many programs? By using PAM, limits.conf and the nofile option set to 20 (number of files open = 20 ), the users can't log in anymore. This is not related to LTSP. Gnome or KDE are using a lot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutdown Button

2007-12-06 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Dec 6, 2007 10:32 AM, Donny Christiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really2 need this stuff to help user shutdown their terminal wihtou pushing down the power button for a few seconds. Here, I use the magic SysRq key as explained in linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt. SysRq-O (Alt-PrintScreen-O on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5/7.10 Ghost processes

2007-12-04 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Dec 4, 2007 9:04 AM, Jussi P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about 30 terminals and after few days memory usage at the server is almost 80-90%. How do you check memory usage? Can you execute 'free' in a terminal and post us the full output? When looking running processes there are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Squidguard on LTSP [VERY long story]

2007-11-16 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Nov 16, 2007 2:04 PM, Tomasz Lewicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In SG logs I have for example: 2007-11-08 10:58:37 [28883] Request(default/bad/-) http://wrzuta.pl/ 192.168.0.254/opac-server.site - GET REDIRECT. In all of log files repeats the same IP: 192.168.0.254 - this is IP of server

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Server Memory Usage

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
AFAIK this will always show high memory usage as linux tries to maximize memory usage and optimise disk buffers for improving performance. More user memory space getting used would mean lesser allocation to disk buffering. Yes, a well running system usually have 5%-10% of 'free' memory and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspswapd Fedora 8 x86_64

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Nov 12, 2007 8:48 AM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up a Fedora 8 x86_64 machine and am trying to put ltsp 4.2 on it. The roadblock that I have just run into is that I don't know how to get ltspswapd installed properly. I can't just download and use the regular rpm

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 Fedora 8 x86_64

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Nov 12, 2007 9:34 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set up a pure x86_64 system using Fedora 8 with no i386 libraries at all. You do not need any i386 libs on the server side. But your NFS exported root is fully i386. I have set up LTSP 4.2 on this machine and my terminal boots

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 Fedora 8 x86_64

2007-11-12 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
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Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software RAID vs Hardware RAID

2007-11-07 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Nov 7, 2007 6:18 PM, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/11/2007, Sebastien Koechlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 5:00 PM, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raid 10? If you try to increase disk throughput, yes; but LVM2 is really, really more powerful than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software RAID vs Hardware RAID

2007-11-07 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On Nov 6, 2007 5:00 PM, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raid 10? If you try to increase disk throughput, yes; but LVM2 is really, really more powerful than aggregation. -- Sébastien Koechlin - This SF.net email is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software RAID vs Hardware RAID

2007-11-06 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
? If you can have a full day of downtime to restore from backup, software Raid-5 is ok; but usually, the cost is higher than adding or upgrading Raid-1 disks. -- Sebastien Koechlin - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Software RAID vs Hardware RAID

2007-10-29 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/29/07, Donny Christiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it good form me to use Software RAID-1 instead of Hardware RAID-1? Raid-1 is usually better in software. You don't need to have a spare controler card, you can balance I/O on many cards, and if you have a problem, you can get your datas

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/5/07, Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my idea now (and I really don't know if this is going to work) is to have 1 dhcpd server (maybe 2 using dhcp failover as described int the dhcp3 docs) and then load balance the tftp services. You have such a high load that you need to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/11/07, Jim Kusznir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a better solution would be to modify the startx screen script to be able to take a list of XDMCP servers, and every time it starts a connection, it does a ping of sorts, taking into account load, on the server list and connects to the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutdown Button

2007-10-06 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
can read linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt if you want to change the keys. Btw, can I shutdown remotely my client's terminal? This is a recent subject, look at the mailing-list archives. -- Sebastien Koechlin - This SF.net

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fwd: Unsupported Crossover (Wine) app installed in managed mode only runs as root.

2007-10-05 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/2/07, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it is a permissions problem but I don't know where to start. Can anyone offer any tips how to fix this problem? Try the 'strace' magic tool; it will tell you what does the program try to open, read, write, errors returned, and where it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 and intel 945gnt as client

2007-09-29 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
32bits BIOS and so etherboot is unable to use it. I don't have a solution to use thoses cards. -- Sebastien Koechlin - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwidth do I need?

2007-08-20 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
* streaming music from the net * 50 % of the bandwidth on the server is used * Only one thin client connected Which bandwidth? Network bandwidth? On the internet link? Or on the local network? If it's on the internet side, LTSP is not concerned. If it's on the local network side: -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] two seats per terminal

2007-07-23 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 7/22/07, Nadav Kavalerchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BUT, i got stuck when the old P1 (and some times a P2) machine could not load the second video card's bios i've tried several old cards from various vendors with no success. I had two or three computers with 2 video cards (for Xinerama),

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] moving jobs between terminals

2007-06-13 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 6/13/07, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of LTSP setups. It would be convenient to be able to move jobs between terminals. For example, if I have a word processor loaded on Terminal A, and am now sitting at Terminal B, I would like to move the word processor window to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Laggy video once upgraded to 4.2?

2007-05-30 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
also check: - That network is working. Use ifconfig on both computer and check that errors, dropped, overruns and collisions counters are null. - That you are at 100Mbps or 1Gbps (with mii-tool or ethtool) -- Sebastien Koechlin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Netboot image to install on Harddisk instead of floppy?

2007-02-20 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
- I dd a floppy startup image from www.rom-o-matic.org directly to the hardware disk, say /dev/hda1 I'm using FreeDOS for that. I have a FreeDOS floppy disk which make a 64MB partition, format it and install FreeDOS on it. It came with a command named pcisleep, with 'L' option, it list PCI

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sda: unknown partition table

2007-01-26 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 1/23/07, Helmut Lichtenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem with a USB stick but funnily I could mount it with: mount /dev/sda /mnt All the data was readable. Some time ago I read a note (don't remember where), that some manufacturers do it this way to save some hundred

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] shared memory

2006-12-08 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
i am using a clustered ltsp server (openMosix). it doesn't migrates shared memory processes: can anyone tell me how i recognize shared memory processes? do i have to look at the source code? :( in /proc/pid/maps, shared pages are tagged with 's' bit; try man proc. for example (extact from

[Ltsp-discuss] Undefined Symbol cirRefreshArea24 with x.org driver cirrus_alpine.so

2006-12-01 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
I have an error with cirrus based computers using LTSP 4.2: When starting X, I have the following error: dlopen:/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/cirrus_alpine.so undefined symbol: cirRefreshArea24 Using 16bpp does not solve this problem. -- Sebastien Koechlin