8.04 ltsp +slow

[David Van Assche]

Hi,
   The 2 are related... you can in fact use any of the following in
the lts.conf:

True, true, False, false, Yes, yes, No, no

The second part of the question is more difficult

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Uwe Geercken <uwe.geercken at datamelt.com> wrote:
> hi and "Moin, Moin"
>
> I am a little bit puzzled now: some documentation I found on lts.conf
> tlaks about:
>
> USE_NBD_SWAP=Y|N
>
> you and other sources talk about
>
> NBD_SWAP=True|False
>
> which one should I use in ltsp5.
>
>
> also, so far my biggest problems are on the network side. what is the
> easiest way of monitoring the traffic volume on the network between
> the server and the clients? I would like to use this to determine if
> certain changes to settings are better or worst. also I could use it
> to monitor application traffic.
>
> tks for help.
>
> uwe
>
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> Zitat von Kai Wüstermann <k.wuestermann at gmx.de>:
>
>> Moin Uwe and Ken!
>>
>> You only need NBD-swap if your client-RAM is lower than 256mB. My
>> experences on gutsy showed, that I could switch of NBD-swap on clients
>> with 128mB saving network traffic.
>>
>> It should be a dirty, but fast fix to switch off the swap with
>> NBD_SWAP = false.
>>
>> The updated documentation
>> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspDocumentationUpstream
>> says:
>>
>> 3.1.4. Thin Client Ram
>> The bare minimum for a thin client to work is about 48MB, but it will be
>> unusably slow, so it is recommended to install at least 128MB Ram, with
>> 256MB Ram if you can spare it. This will really help speed up thin
>> clients.
>>
>> If you have a root password in your chroot, you can lock on the terminal
>> (Alt+F1) on the client and use free -m to look if the client uses any
>> swap.
>>
>> Kai Wüstermann
>>
>>
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