Hello Peter, Julius, Thanks for your inputs.
Actually, I'm doing some in-house experiments on server fine-tuning using the most commonly available software components (KDE, OpenOfficeOrg) hoping to get some useful data which may help in scaling up an LTSP server. I'm currently looking at RAM / Disk Channel usage vs. number of clients. I'm working out with the server having as much RAM as possible then systematically reducing it until I see some performance degradation. I hope to see a practical minimum RAM requirement per set number of clients. Do you know of any other monitoring app similar to what KDE already has? It would be nice if the data can be initially logged and then graphed and displayed at a later time. Thanks again, regards, Phil mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:59:15 PM, Peter you wrote: PB> Philip, PB> No need to worry about freeing this memory; the kernel does it automatically. The kernel will raise or lower the amount of memory used for cache depending upon the amount needed by running PB> applications. Lots of memory used for cache is normally a good PB> sign because it means you have plenty of memory available for the running applications and then some. PB> Cache significantly speeds up disk access times. You'll be very unhappy with system performance if cache ever gets to 0! :-) PB> The memory item you should worry about is swap. If you are using large amounts of swap or your machine is constantly swapping you probably could use some more memory. Swap kills system PB> performance. PB> Pete Billson Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 10:59:05 PM, Julius you wrote: JS> Philip, JS> the behavior you describe is exactly right. the system *should* JS> use as much memory as possible for buffer cache. this memory is released JS> for use as needed. why would you want to have tons of memory doing JS> nothing? julius ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ 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
