[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Ken, > > > > > > Sounds pretty darned cool. > > > > > > What is it that you are rendering with your farm ? > > > > > > Its a farm for Fox News in NYC. They are rendering frames of 3D > > animation with Alias|Wavefront Maya. We didn't want to have to maintain > > 5 individual machines (RedHat updates, Maya updates, etc), so I decided > > to take a crack at LTSP using one as a server/rendernode and the other 4 > > as clients using PXE (no Etherboot) and local app support (Maya, NTP, > > etc). I had actually implemented this with a local disk for swap, but > > we decided to put the money into more memory instead, since swapping of > > _any_ kind just reduces the performance. > > Sounds like cool stuff. > > > > > As long as I have your ear, do you have any ideas on how to get dhclient > > to exit after it receives the info that it needs, so that the ramdisk > > (/oldroot) can be unmounted? > > I haven't played much with that, but I know that some others on > the list have actually been able to kill dhclient, and then restart > it in the rc.local script once the pivot_root has been done.
Any references or approximate dates in the archives? > > > > One other thing: I have noticed that my LTSP client machines seem to > > report less physical memory via /proc/meminfo than the server, even > > though they all have the exact same hardware config. Do you have any > > idea why this is? Is this something with the kernel, a ramdisk, tmpfs? > > If I boot one of the client machines with the server disk, then I see > > more memory reported, so its definitely something to do with the LTSP > > client machines. > > Possibly related to the initrd memory not being freed. How much ram > are you talking about as a discrepency ? IIRC, somewhere between 750KB and 2MB. Its no big deal, it just struck me as odd. -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
