Re: Fwd: Memory usage under Ubuntu + LTSP 4.1

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:52:38AM +0100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:39, Knut Yrvin wrote:
> > An interesting test about memory usage og LTSP from Jonathan Carter: 
> 
> It would be interesting to see the effect of "unifying" the LTSP chroot
> with the server (hardlinking identical files in the chroot and server).
> This allows linux to share memory between the server and clients.
> Provided the server and chroot are running identical distributions, most
> disk buffering and libraries can be shared. I bet you would see about
> 30M saving for GDM for example...

This will save disk space and perhaps server I/O, but not memory.  The
clients run programs in the chroot over NFS, on different physical machines,
and the server doesn't run programs in the chroot at all normally.

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 - mdz