I would imagine that you are having trouble with running out of memory and it's all the machine can do to keep running. X windows itself takes around 4-8MB of RAM to run. You will probably get it to work decently by upgrading the machine to 8MB of RAM, but you will still need to implement some form of swap space. This can be done via a local hard drive or local storage of some kind or by swapping across the network using NFS swapping (or possibly NBD swapping). This is necessary, especially if you still want to use the machine with only 4MB RAM. As previously mentioned, performance is going to be very slow since the machine will always be thrashing (i.e., running out of memory and having to swap less active pages out and back and forth, etc.). LTSP 2.09prerelease has NFS swapping capabilities, so you might try installing the latest version and enabling NFS swap.
Gerry Kirk wrote: >Hi, > >I'm getting incredibly slow performance on the clients, which, admittedly are rather >puny - 486 >with 4MB RAM, rtl8139 10MB/s network card. > >On the server I've got Mandrake 8.0, with reiserfs partitions, 256 MB RAM, 1.33 GHZ >Athlon >processor, 7200 RPM ATA-100 IDE drives, 3COM 905 network card. > >Network is 100 MB/s. > >I am testing only one client at the moment. It gets to the logon screen, but takes 10 >minutes to >get there. I am using ltsp 2.08, and vmlinuz.all kernel. I tried using >vmlinuz.rtl8139, from the >kernel-2.2 series, but then I get a kernel panic during boot-up. > >Are there problems with reiserfs I should be aware of? Anything I can do to boost >performance? > >Thanks, >Gerry > >IT Specialist | "Do not repay anyone evil for evil. If your enemy >MCC | is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him >Bangladesh | a drink. Do not be overcome by evil, >. | but overcome evil with good." - Bible > > >----------------------------------------- >This email was sent using SquirrelMail. > "Webmail for nuts!" >http://squirrelmail.org/ > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ >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.openprojects.net > -- Jason A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ 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.openprojects.net
