Re: Multiple Clients

[Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com>]

Rudhuwan,

We are not running the apps locally yet, so we don't have to worry about
swap.  The machines run really well with 32mb of ram.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org

Rudhuwan Abu Bakar wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim
> 
> Is NFS swap needed in your LTSP project? The reason I am asking, my client
> seems to run out of memory when I run netscape and other applications.To
> get over this I have to patch NFS swap into the client kernel. For this we
> cannot upgrade our kernel to 2.2.X.We are still using 2.0.35.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dvir,
> >
> > Please take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project
> > at http://www.ltsp.org
> >
> > It's a project I'm working on to handle diskless booting, after
> > the bootrom is done with it's job.  We have a site with 70 workstations,
> > all mounting the same root filesystem in read-only mode.
> >
> > It may be just what you need.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim McQuillan
> > jam@ltsp.org
> >
> > Dvir Oren wrote:
> >
> > > 2.  The other thing I can't seem to configure is the need to create a
> > > separate file system for each system that has to boot.  Suppose I
> > > want to have 10 diskless computers, why do I need to duplicate 10
> > > file systems on the server?  I suppose I could hard link most of the
> > > file system, and only create a new /var, /tmp and /proc perhaps
> > > (still there is a problem with /etc/mtab) for each client.  A better
> > > solution would be if I could make a single file system for all the
> > > computers, and let each computer have a ramdisk with only certain
> > > directories (/var, etc.).  Is there a way to do this?
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