8.04 ltsp +slow

[Jordan Erickson]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 17:47 -0700 schrieb Jordan Erickson:
>   
>> Uwe,
>>
>> I just got back from a site and noticed a few things regarding NBD_SWAP 
>> and the ltsp-client-setup script that lives in /etc/init.d in the 
>> chroot. I have no idea if this is related, but it *does* hang the server 
>> (and bootup of clients) when NBD_SWAP = True, the chroot is updated with 
>> hardy-updates (which fixes the NBD port bug and gets it going in the 
>> first place) at:
>>
>> ---
>> Setting up LTSP client...
>> Negotiation:
>> ---
>>
>> Upon looking in 'top' on the server, there are a few 'dd' processes 
>> running, which I assume are creating swap files in /tmp on the server. 
>> I'm not sure though. Here's my IRC log, just to give more information 
>> (Thanks Ryan for the help btw, you nailed a syntax bug in the script):
>>
>> http://lns.wikidot.com/randomnotes
>>
>> Whoever takes care of the ltsp-client-setup script should probably fix 
>> that quote issue. Possibly our whole issue with NBD_SWAP lies in this 
>> script as well... ?
>>     
> wow, that was well spotted, this change of looping over nbd devices came
> from fedora and likely contains a few bashisms, i will examine it soon
> and prepare a fix for hardy-updates...
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>   
/me feels happy to have found this (with help from Ryan52 in #ltsp) =) 
Thanks Oli!

Jordan