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Re: NFS-SWAP



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Ragnar Wisloff wrote:
| Dagfinn Bakken skrev:
|
|> Det ligger tilsynelatende en linux-2.4.25-nfs-swap.diff i Debian
|> unstable pakken kernel-patches-nfs-swap (Jeg prøver denne nå)
|>
|> Ltsp klientene fungerer uten nfs-swap men det gir mer mening å
|> ihvertfall ha swap tilgjengelig... Jeg vet ikke hva minimum RAM er for
|> tynnklientene, jeg har startet en klient med 16 MB, dette gikk helt
|> smertefritt.
|
|
| Skolelinux kommer med NFS-swap for alle tynnklientene  ut av boksen. Det
| forutsetter riktignok at tynnklientene settes opp med låst IP i
| dhcpd.conf. Du kan naturligvis skru det av igjen om du ikke trenger det,
| eller sette det opp selektivt per klient.
|
| Erfaring og testing viser at 32MB kan være for lite til skolebruk, 16MB
| blir defintivt for lite. NFS swap løser problemet effektivt.

[Ragnar writes about NFS-swap being used generally on all thin clients,
and that 32MB ram may be too little for school usage]

Please, can you give some details on the experiences: What eats up so
much memory on a thin client?

I find it difficult to understand that to be true, unless you are
talking about "half-fat clients" - that is, thin clients but with some
programs (or floppy/sound daemon) running locally.

Regards,

~ - Jonas

P.S.

If you find it annoying that only a small portion of the norwegian text
above is translated, then please ask either Ragnar
<ragnar@skolelinux.no> or Dagfinn <dagfinn@norsklinux.no> for a
translation, as they seem to have judged their postings relevant only
for norwegians.

- --
* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

~ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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