[Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals. The terminals all have 512 MB RAM. Up to now, we have 512 MB swap. Would it make sense to give them 1024 MB instead, or would that have side-effects like longer response times

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Cannot confirm this. 512 MB RAM can be too small if users are surfin' Firefox and sites with a huge amount of graphics content. So if I switch off ltspswap, there are crashes (not frequently but there are some). If I switch it on, the system runs flawlessly. Rolf Krsnendu dasa schrieb: 512

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile from source for the 2nd instance, but is there any way of using Ubuntu's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5: local devices : ERROR connecting - no ltspfsd

2008-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 13:39 +0100 schrieb Reinald Gfuellner: SCREEN_07 = startx ltspfs needs the ssh tunnel in place, XDMCP is not used in ltsp5 (we still have the option for using startx, but none of the features are developed for it) if you want unecrypted X

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5: local devices : ERROR connecting - no ltspfsd

2008-03-06 Thread Reinald Gfuellner
Trying to set up local ltsp5-device-support according https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugLocalDev I keep failing at Step 4: Can you manually issue a mount command? server_$ ltspfs thin_client:/tmp /tmp/mnt add ERROR connecting Aparentely ltspfsd did not come up: server_$ nmap -A thin_client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread jam
On Friday 07 March 2008 05:12:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals. The terminals all have 512 MB RAM. Up to now, we have 512 MB swap. Would it make sense to give them 1024 MB instead, or would

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5: local devices : ERROR connecting - no ltspfsd

2008-03-06 Thread jam
On Friday 07 March 2008 05:12:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     SCREEN_07           = startx   ltspfs needs the ssh tunnel in place, XDMCP is not used in ltsp5 (we still have the option for using startx, but none of the features are developed for it) if you want unecrypted X transport use

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
jam schrieb: On Friday 07 March 2008 05:12:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals. The terminals all have 512 MB RAM. Up to now, we have 512 MB swap. Would it make sense to give them 1024 MB