Some Advice needed on cloning a Server

[jbarry]

hmmmm I have run some clients on window mode, since I have to watch
xrestop. And they were the ones that did not hung up, OK I'll this
later.

On 10/4/07, Philipp Hanselmann <philipp at schoolnet.na> wrote:
> jbarry schrieb:
> > Hello Guys!
> >
> > First of all thanks the flash based webpages have sound now.
> >
> > I was investigating the hanging programs, but i am still at loss.
> >
> > I started my focus on gcompris since it seems to the most in need by
> > the school preschoolers and Grades 1 - 3. (some faculty members are
> > suggesting we go windows since they have an educational program at
> > home that maybe used, I declined saying we have some good programs in
> > linux also, and that we can't install pirated software.)
> >
> > I observed that only about 12 clients can run gcompris reasonably
> > while the others would crawl, the server would also run so slowly.
> > watching htop on the server the memory consumption would reach about
> > 1600 mb (not yet eating swap) but the two processors would maintain
> > 100%
> >
> > watching xrestop on the clients (i'm not so good at using it yet) for
> > the clients that can run gcompris the pixmap memory is very low, while
> > I can not observe xrestop on the hanging computers since they would
> > not respond anymore to my keystrokes.
> >
> > as for the xsession-error I cannot get a sense it any of it, I copied
> > these are hoping that they  maybe of some relevance.
> >
> > ** (process:2320): WARNING **: config_file /home/guest04/.gcompris/gcompris.conf
> >
> > ** (process:2320): WARNING **: Binary relocation disabled
> > ** Message: gc_locale_set ''
> >
> >
> > ** (gcompris:2320): WARNING **: Requested locale '' got 'en_US.UTF-8'
> > package_data_dir         = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
> > package_locale_dir       = /usr/share/locale
> > package_plugin_dir       = /usr/lib/gcompris
> > package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > kbuildsycoca running...
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
> >   Major opcode:  144
> >   Minor opcode:  3
> >   Resource id:  0x0
> > Failed to open device
> >
> > ** (process:16575): WARNING **: config_file
> > /home/guest04/.gcompris/gcompris.conf
> >
> > ** (process:16575): WARNING **: Binary relocation disabled
> > ** Message: gc_locale_set ''
> >
> >
> > ** (gcompris:16575): WARNING **: Requested locale '' got 'en_US.UTF-8'
> > package_data_dir         = /usr/share/gcompris/boards
> > package_locale_dir       = /usr/share/locale
> > package_plugin_dir       = /usr/lib/gcompris
> > package_python_plugin_dir= /usr/share/gcompris/python
> > ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 10085, errno = 0
> > The application 'nm-applet' lost its connection to the display localhost:13.0;
> > most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> > the application.
> > The application 'evolution-alarm-notify' lost its connection to the
> > display localhost:13.0;
> > most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> > the application.
> > Xsession: X session started for guest04 at Tue Oct  2 10:18:39 PHT 2007
> > SESSION_MANAGER=local/spedhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/28199
> >
> > ** (update-notifier:28420): WARNING **: not starting because user is
> > not in admin group
> >
> > evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 78073 1191369600 1191291527
> > evolution-alarm-notify-Message:  Wed Oct  3 08:00:00 2007
> >
> > evolution-alarm-notify-Message:  Tue Oct  2 10:18:47 2007
> >
> >
>
>
> May this helps...
>
> I wasn't able to run gcompris at all (LDM_DIRECTX=true).
>
> I had always this errror messages in .xsession-errors:
>     The program gcompris receiving  an X Window System error.
>     This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>     The error was 'XF86VidModelClientBotLocal'
>
> Now I have preconfigured gcompris that the window doesn't run in full
> screen, since than gcompris is working.
>
> Have tryed to run gcompris in window mode? May the performance is better?
>
> Philipp
>  .
>
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