Q: Should I have swap?

[Daniel Carrera]

Jack Wasey wrote:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Jails look interesting. I just have one question (I hope someone can 
>> answer): If I have 10 clients running Gnome+OpenOffice+Firefox will 
>> the RAM in the server have 10 redundant copies of those applications?
> 
> No, that's what your server's swap is for. (Also see swap over network 
> for LTSP. Alternative or complementary?)

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. I'm concerned that 
if I use jails there will be multiple redundant copies of common 
programs like Gnome, all stored in virtual memory. So the virtual memory 
requirement would go out the roof and we'd miss most of the benefit of 
thin clients.

Daniel.
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