Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Rob OpenSuSE
<rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/1/15 Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Rather suggested that you thought, that you needed to run a desktop locally.

The X server DOES run locally. That and every bitmap caching part of
the server, and any other features that run on the local machine.
Having a 64/128MB graphics card - as I previously stated - requires
swap space to mmap the memory to get X running in the first place.
There's usually not that much memory left if you're running over NFS.

Apps like Firefox and so on require far too much memory - OpenOffice
is another culprit. Basically anything you wanted to run "on the
server" actually just leaves it's processing requirements on the
server, but passes everything to do with the display - including heavy
memory use and caching - back to the thin client.

> 2009/1/15 Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Also just an example. LTSP is one place we would have liked to push
> > these boards but the system requirements were still way too high
> > simply because of the architecture of LTSP.
>
> The recommendations you've found would imply otherwise.

Have you even tried it?

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Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
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