Not sure what it's worth, but I've been following this thread, and I wanted to compliment you on your hard work towards this issue. Keep it up.
Jeremy D. Young Systems Analyst O'Reilly Auto Parts (417) 862-2674 x1858 Nicholas Metsovon <nmets...@yahoo.com> wrote on 02/21/2009 12:59:34 PM: > My brother and I worked for about a week and a half, trying to come > up with a test program or programs to help get to the bottom of the > problem of Java (and other) apps running slowly on LTSP terminals. > > I'm sorry to say that we do not have a test program to offer you. > However, we do have a possible solution for you. > > Try the following steps, please: > > 1. Update your LTSP server. > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get autoremove > sudo apt-get upgrade > > (I don't know that the autoremove is necessary, but we did it.) > > 2. Install a font server to your LTSP server. Apparently, this is > not done on Ubuntu 8.04 by default. > sudo apt-get install xfs xfstt > > 3. Put the following line in your lts.conf file in the "default" section. > XFS_SERVER = [Your LTSP Server IP Address] > We have two network cards in our server - one for our primary > network, and one just for the LTSP network. I put the IP address > for our LTSP network here. > > 4. Reboot your *thin clients*, and test. > > > We looked at all sorts of things over the past week and a half. At > one point, early on, we had a test program showing a 13-14% > performance difference when run on an LTSP terminal vs. the same > machine as a full Linux workstation running ssh -X. I'm sure > Netbeans had a much larger difference than this, but this is what we > could quantitatively show with our test program. However, when we > updated our server, the performance difference on that test program > mysteriously went away. I don't know what changed, but something > apparently started working better or differently. > > For a while, my brother thought it might be a file system or > networking problem. Then came the font theory... > > All I know is that this works for us. I'd be really curious to hear > if it helps any of the rest of you. I hope it does. > > With this, Netbeans runs very nicely on all of our thin clients > we've tested -- even on our LTSP Term 170 DVI, which it used to run > dog slow on. > > Glory be to the God of Demetrios... and St. Nicholas of Metsovon! > > Ciao. > > Nico > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean (mailgw2:CFAA2408F94.2F91B). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ 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
