Hi Joe, On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Joe Baker wrote:
I loaded up the page with Firefox on a thin client with 64 Meg of ram and 64 meg of Swap space over NFS. I usually never see the swap space used. In this case I did see 19 megs of swap space used (the "free" command will report the memory usage on the thin client).
Thanks for testing out that web page for me.
Is there any way that we can specify a local hard disk to be used for swap space on the thin clients?
While that would probably increase performance when swap is needed, one of the things I like about using LTSP is that our clients are so quiet. Hard disks can be quite loud. We have lots of people packed into a small office and quiet computers are really nice!
It isn't uncommon for applications to simply crash when enough memory cannot be allocated. If you have syslog enabled, you might see something in the loggs about "out of memory" errors.
We do have the clients logging to the LTSP server's syslog daemon, but I don't see any errors there when X crashes on the client.
Another instance where this type of incident may occur is when a user is looking at a large photo attached to an email message and tries to scroll it.
Yes, we had that cause X to crash as well! Thunderbird opening large picture attachmments would crash the same 64MB terminals. Thanks for reminding me.
Jason, in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf can you tell me what the X_COLOR_DEPTH= setting is for the machine where it crashes?
We don't set that LTSP option at all. My terminal is currently running at 16 bit color depth, so I'm guessing that most/all of the other ones are using that depth as well.
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