On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:49:31 +0100, Ondrej Valousek wrote > Hi Jim, > Any success with the Xorg guys?
Not really. A handful of ideas were passed around, but in all they still think this is not their problem. I tend to disagree, as their X server should not allow clients to crash it....buy since I'm not them this doesn't really matter. However Firefox3 will have this fixed. There are a handful of new features that will be implemented to control this. By default it looks like the cache will purge data that has not been called on after 45 seconds. There will also be a user controllable setting in about:config to fine tune how long data stays in cache. So we should have the ability to set this very low in the future on thin client installs. One size doesn't fit all, but having the ability to choose your own size easily will be great. Also a workaround is the increase of NBD swap. I run 512MB RAM in my clients now, and 512MB swap for them as well. Also the tweak to not allow an application to consume more than 80% or so of client RAM should be included in Gutsy, so at least your clients won't freeze. If anyone wants to check out the xorg thread from my previous post there are some good suggestions in it. I did have a guy from there volunteer to write a shim that loads firefox with some cache tweaks, it works pretty good. But Jim McQuillan did advise against this as it is a very sloppy fix. But if your desperate it will load Firefox in a way that it kills all the cache within seconds. This keeps firefox from crashing your client, but the sites that are causing the problems load very slowly if at all. Best work around is to switch to Opera or any non-mozilla based browser as they do not have this problem at all. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
