On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:54:56PM +1000, simon wrote: > Hello all, > > I test my ltsp terminal in a p166 48M old merchine. and I found it running > perfect. then I decide to make it in production environment. > But I encounter trouble on those really old merchines. > which is: > cpu: 486Dx66 - 100, > memory: 8M -12M > video card: s3 with 1024kMemory. > netcard: ne2000 ISA. > > on 8M merchine, whenever I try to boot to X window. X crach and return to > XDM login dialog. > on 12M merchine, it's better than 8M merchine. > > My question is: what is the mini memory does a ltsp X terminal needs?
Use nfs-swap and you can away with as little as 8Mb. The performance will be effected if the clients have only 10Mbit NICs, but it will work. (Actually that is what I got at home) > And why the program is slower than run directly in the server? Isn't it actually run > in server where I run in X terminal? I think that the two most important factors are: a) 10Mbit or 100Mbit Nics on the clients b) The speed of the graphic card on the client On 10Mbit clients, the amount of RAM on the client is probably more important than b). > I test it in server: P233, 128M memory notebook, s3 4Mvideo ram,4G HD; > terminal: 486Dx100 ,8M memory, s3 1M videoram. -- Hans Ekbrand
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