-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Murchison wrote: > One of the five is the LTSP server as well as a render node. The other > 4 are setup as local_app LTSP clients which have Maya installed and a > Spider daemon running (Spider is the distributed render control piece, > with the submission taking place on a Win32 box). I made some small > tweaks to rc.local, such as using tmpfs instead of a ramdisk for /tmp > and doing swap over NFS via /dev/loop instead of patching the kernel. I > compiled my own LTSP kernel using the RH 7.3 i686/SMP config.
I second the statement made earlier about needing the NFS swap patch. Without the patch, if the kernel gets to the point where it has memory pressure and needs to swap out userland code, it will swap out the NFS userland parts and deadlock the kernel. The NFS swap patch keeps this from happening and reserves some extra memory space (I think) for the NFS userland code. From your previous post concerning the amount of memory, etc. you have on each workstation, It doesn't seem that you will need to swap. Also, if you do need to swap, and this is taking place on a render farm, you will see drastic decreases in performance of you renders unless you are using extremely fast networks (i.e., gigabit ethernet or greater). - -- Jason A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+FFK3uYsUrHkpYtARAukAAJ9biHbJWs36q8zuHWDNOFYyjYQ5BgCfZWCF SavGdF5lrfHYc4vM5zAvLcA= =GBMr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
