On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:24:21 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > > > Fair enough. Could this be modified to monitor OpenOffice and Firefox > > specifically? > > I think you may have missed the point a little. > > Firefox hands huge amounts of data (over the network) to the X Server to > store for it. Therefore it is the X server whose ram usage grows. Firefox > doesn't run on the thin client at all so it doesn't directly consume RAM on > it. > > Jim's thin client ulimit can only apply to unix processes on the thin > client, ie the X server process.
I'm apparently just a little slow lately :-) I tried the echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory on the client, no affect. I thought it was doing something until I remembered to turn of the X_RAMPERC option, after that the client was allowed to freeze again. Oh well. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
