Hugo, > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:25:42 -0600 (CST) > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Prolinux?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I need your help solving netscape run away on ltsp > terminals, it runs away so often without freeing cpu. > I am using Pentium 75 with 16Mb and 500Mb HD as > terminals and I would like to either replace netscape > with konqueror, mozilla or galeon, but with java > support, or use netscape as a local application (if my > current hardware could support it). Any suggestion?
I've run into problems with Java and Linux web browsers myself. That's what usually causes Netscape to run away on Linux, I think. You will have trouble finding a combination of browser and Java versions to correctly load the website you are looking at. 16MB is barely enough to run X-Windows. You would need at least 32MB on each workstation (64 would be better) to run netscape locally. If you're using the 500MB HDs for swap, however, then 32MB is fine. I think the stations would run really slowly with only 16MB, though. They would be swapping constantly! > I am using mandrake 8.1 and made some attempts to > download different versions of jre (java runtime > environment) to setup either konqueror or mozilla to > use java plugins but without success, when I load web > pages that need java support they come incomplete, but > netscape works fine on them. Could someone try > latinchat.com and tell me if chatting is posible with > a different browser than netscape? I just tried the latest jre's from Sun and IBM with Mozilla 0.9.6 and the chat site "Java Lite" applet didn't load. I think you are stuck with Netscape, in which case there are a couple things you can do to fix the running away problem: 1) Install verynice. It is a dynamic process renicer. It will automatically give runaway processes a lower and lower priority (higher and higher niceness level) until they reach a certain threshold after which it will attempt to kill the processes off using various kill signals. Make sure you setup the /etc/verynice.conf file the way you want. It can be configured to ignore certain processes or to pay special attention to certain processes (this is what you want). The link is http://tam.cornell.edu/~sdh4/verynice/ and there is an RPM package and installation instructions. I've used this package with much success. 2) You could download my kludge of shell scripts from the LTSP contrib page <http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/index.php> and run the main script (sickem) out of cron. It is not nearly as elegant as verynice, but it also gets the job done. Jason _____________________________________________________________________ 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
