Hi, On Donnerstag, 5. November 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > that would result in less frequent wrong "kills", but still has the > > potential of wrong kills. I wouldn't do that. Especially as killer > > is/was a new package for lenny, I think we are better of not > > enabling a half-working feature by default. It's also documented in > > the manual now how to enable it if one really wants it. > The killer program was introduced to fix problems reported at schools, > with leftover processes and running out of resources. I hope we can > make sure the lenny release fixes this problem, as it affect a lot of > schools. Schools which have this issues can follow http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/HowTo/Administration#Automaticcleanupofleft-overprocess > Another approach would be to teack killer to look for host group > membership, and only run when the current host is in a group. It > would allow schools to enable it on single hosts using lwat and LDAP > group memberships. Do you really think this will happen soon enough to be included in our lenny release? Assuming we release lenny this year.... > > Shouldnt we put this in cron? Also, the manual recommends to use > > 512mb sized swap files for workstations with 256mb ram, currently we > > create 32mb sized swapfiles. This is suitable for thin-clients but > > quite useless for diskless workstations - shouldn't we raise this? > > (For this we would probably need to raise harddisc requierments > > again, but I dont see that as such a big problem.) > > As far as I know, there is no need to change this. The thin clients > will ask for more swap when running out, and the swap will be added in > 32MB increments. :) The we should probably reword the stuff about swap in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/Requirements#Hardwarerequirements ?! regards, Holger
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