On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Kevin de Wet wrote:

> We have recently installed LTSP for a lab of 10 PC's, with a 1.2GHz
> AMD Athlon, 1 Gig of RAM server.  With only a few users logged on the
> memory is running very high - at times the full gig is used up by only
> three users. After all users have logged off it will sit at say
> 750-800 megs.  I found some kill scripts in the contrib area (kiosk
> reset and killscript) to end stray processes but these don't seem to
> help.  A server restart gets the RAM back low, but it get used up very
> quickly.  Any thoughts on the problem / a solution?


Run the 'free' command and send us the output.

i think you'll find that the Linux kernel is simply using that
ram for lots of disk cache.  As programs require more ram, the
kernel will give up some of the disk cache to satisfy the
memory demands of the application.


> 
> Also ... at times after one user logs on, the system will mount stacks
> of other users home directories onto the LTSP server from our main
> server, even though they are not logged on.  Any ideas?

No clue here, sounds like you've configured an automounter.

Jim McQuillan
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