Oh and i should mention I've been running both Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 LTS. And scrolling is one of the biggest problems. Scrolling a PDF in either firefox or Acroread is bad, and just scrolling web pages. Waiting for big chunks at a time.
On 11/07/2014 02:23 PM, Mike Cammilleri wrote: > So I've been experimenting with various hardware for our LTSP servers. > Everything from VM's to this current Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ > 2.30GHz (12 core) with ~48GB of RAM. (Dell Poweredge). > > Thin client is a Zotac ZboxSD13-ID13 with 4GB of RAM and an Intel Atom > D525 (1.8 GHz, dual-core). > > I have a 1gigabit connection all the way from the thin client to the > LTSP server. > > Why are things always laggy? Multiple tabs in Firefox - will take 5 > seconds after each click for anything to happen. Clicking between > windows has same almost 5 second lag or more. Of course watching a > Youtube video slows everything down. > > I installed xosview to monitor the server and I do notice the network > graph pegging at the top of the chart, but the actually numbers are just > fluctuating from 6K to 5Mbit so I'm not sure network is the problem. But > there is no way that this LTSP server shouldn't be able to handle a > single thin-client efficiently. However I've seen this behavior on our > other LTSP server configurations as well. I can't seem to track down the > slowness - RAM looks good and CPU time is very low. > > Could it be a lag in the actual transmission of X (video) to my monitor? > When I type this email the cursor is moving fine. If I type in Firefox > its laggy again. I'm stumped. > > What should one look for when optimizing LTSP for performance? > Everything I read says I'm doing it fine as far as meeting the LTSP > server system requirements but I can't have users using such a lagging > interface. > > Thanks for any advice! > mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
