Swap filling up, apps crashing

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Nick

On 04/09/2010 13:21, Nick Fenger wrote:
> I'm having an issue where swap fills to 100% (0Kb free) after
> running applications such as openoffice and chrome/firefox but does not
> decrease substantially when the applications are closed. Ultimately when
> swap reaches 100%, browser plugins start crashing (java, flash). 
> 
> The configuration is a mostly out-of-the-box fat-clients (32Bit 3.2Ghz
> 512MB intel video systems) with a Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid image I built with
> the --fat-client option of ltsp-build-client on a 64Bit Server. I've
> made no customizations is Lts.conf.
> Thank you for your support,

In my initial tests with diskless fat clients, I also ran into some
memory problems on a 512MB machine. Disabling certain things that run on
startup (most notable jockey-gtk and italc) reduced the memory usage
quite a bit and made it possible to log in and use the machine much better.

It doesn't quite sound like you have the same issue that I had, but
perhaps even removing some of these session startup programs might fix
yours as well.

-Jonathan