On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:16:09 -0400 John Hupp <l...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > Checking around just now, I have not found any sort of a hardware > requirement for Chromium. Do you know of any? > > If there are no published hardware requirements, I may just try it and > see what happens. >
I'm just guessing, but I think the main requirement is "boatloads of RAM", more than 128Mb at any rate. I fired up Chromium 18 on my Ubuntu 12.04 system and navigated to just the Google home page (no other tabs) and the total resident memory size (ie actual physical memory used by chromium) is 298Mb of RAM. When I navigated to a stackoverflow.com page, it went up to 342Mb. Admittedly, this is a 64-bit system with lots of RAM so chromium may be wasting some just because it knows it can. If you want to check chromium memory usage on the server before you try to run it on the client, this shell one-liner command will give you the total resident memory size (in kilobytes) for all running chromium-browser processes: ps --no-headers -o rss -C chromium-browser e | paste -sd+ - | bc Hope this helps, Angus PS This obviously depends a lot on your circumstances and where in the world you are, but it may be worth putting in some time to try and get some higher specced machines or some more RAM. Depending on where you are in the world the parts/computers may be available for free or as throwaways. Even just upgrading the server to 1Gb and the clients to 512Mb may give them a new lease on life! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
