On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:23:49 ltsp-discuss- [email protected] wrote: > I've just started moving people here over to my new LTSP server. the > only one was a graduated desktop machine. this new one is a legit > server with 16 gigs of ran and a 2.33 quad core processor. > > So you'd think it would run faster than the old machine, but that is not > the case. and I'm not sure why. > > I talked a bit about this in the irc forum the other day. it's running > on a fresh karmic install (with all updates). > > It just seems to crawl and I'm not sure why. I don't seem to have > tracker installed (that was my first thought). I am running single nic > (though i have two installed on the machine, only one is configured). > > What would help are some tests that I can run to help track down the > source of this issue. Is there any such thing? > > iotop looks normal. lots of init, firefox, and squid at the top, but > they're not sucking up much processing power. Is Karmic just slow? I > installed via apt, is that not the best method? > > I haven't installed a version of ltsp since ubuntu 8.04, so I'm a bit > out of the loop.
For my own curiosity (my stairs are worn out :-) are you running a 32 or 64 server ? If 32 then you echo my findings that memory paging does not work for ltsp type apps. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
