system still crawling.... help

[Luis Montes]

Luis Montes wrote:
> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote:
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>> Agreed.  Can you look back through /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages
>> during the time and see if there's anything that might indicate the source
>> of the issue?
>>
>> One possibility might be a rogue process hogging all system RAM which
>> eventually might have been killed by the kernel (that kill would be
>> logged).  There are many more possibilities though.
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> Looks like there's been over 5000 errors like this:
>  "Oct  1 09:32:24 192.168.0.61 kernel: [152372.345437] end_request: I/O 
> error, dev nbd0, sector 200314"
>  since yesterday morning.
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>> As far as I know, in LTSP5 gdm is not needed.  It was in LTSP4 because gdm
>> was what the clients connected to.  However, as the client runs its own
>> display manager and starts a session over ssh, I don't think gdm running
>> is necessary.  Presumably you've observed something that makes you think it
>> is?
>>
>> Gavin
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> GDM hanging definitely stops the thin clients from booting up. This is a 
> little harder for me to debug because I don't yet quite get exactly how 
> the new event based launcher works.
> What happened monday was that apparently X stopped liking (maybe there 
> was an update) my server's ATI ES 1000. I finally was able to switch to 
> framebuffer and that got passed "Starting Gnome display manager", which 
> then allowed some other service to start which allowed the thin clients 
> to boot.
>
> Luis
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Ok guys I'm still dead in the water. So how do I go about just not using 
NBD at all? What's the 8.04 default?
I thought that swap over network was for thin clients with very low ram. 
All of mine have at least 128MB isn't that enough?

Thanks,

Luis