Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:36:26 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: Nagy L?szl? <nagylzs@enternet.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD Message-ID: <44D9F2EA.5030205@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <86hd0mdm86.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> <20060807231202.GA9552@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <86hd0mdm86.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Chris Shenton wrote: > cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> writes: > >> I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting >> from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. >> Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading >> programs [and those boards are not the fastest, though 100% silent ;-)], >> but users here are happy enough with them. > > Ditto: I have one of these in my kitchen and like it -- no sysadm, > silent, etc. Not the fastest but mine is 3 years old. > > Only problem I've noticed is if Mozilla (or whatever) uses all the RAM > then X11 restarts, losing your sessions. Doesn't happen all the > time. One day I'll set up swap to run over the net. Have you enabled any swap? Of course, swap over nfs is not desirable, but it's preferred over running out of memory. I have forgotten the details, but basically you create a swap file of the required size like this # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1k count=64k (to get 64MB) and mount that. Note, that if you have more diskless clients, then each must have it's own swap. Also, currently, by default, memory fs's are created for /var and /tmp if you use 6.X, using up your RAM. Try tuning that, and create a link /tmp -> /var/tmp to save space. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H 00נ U O 0 *H 01 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U00 060420131650Z 070420131650Z0b1 0 UES10U LocoLomo.Org10U Erik Norgaard1$0" *H norgaard@locolomo.org0"0 *H 0 >NPLGMK $^ha~ Xם-`Y^P oœtƥ*\.e _!2\j]m)B>v +z 2VfDѝR}Tc&E/#_. 9DŽ9÷ (3 ?ԝWu%)vŅͯTr)FA+(R6ƶw {9zP_ Q^zpk/jXMY n0j0U 0 0 U 0 U iy,]ñtb? i0U #0Àa&WtЕna=⥡01 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U0 U O0 U 0norgaard@locolomo.org08U 10/0-+)'http://www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/ds.crl0 *H ǟ@&<mWc4LS@G4['s5\\VN^`I &>"@>"[xq 89` @sG;LP ]ƜTT|sGٶ2 Ҋctx?'ҭ$0r; 2#ba"%$B p%rԆU ì> !73ȁg6_ I.2Ġ!AaAmF G' bךuf>-dxqq09#XOSk+FuyTvr+p!!}n.6NH' 5+9`CVĩ;7RߔRKIpv&S@P`;%eƓxC uiL Cb Y,)x:3ѓGjRe EtPҰk< c\;9pT9/K̩ L HzMMuʔ(dkskj <ds08PxZ NWC00נ U O 0 *H 01 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U00 060420131650Z 070420131650Z0b1 0 UES10U LocoLomo.Org10U Erik Norgaard1$0" *H norgaard@locolomo.org0"0 *H 0 >NPLGMK $^ha~ Xם-`Y^P oœtƥ*\.e _!2\j]m)B>v +z 2VfDѝR}Tc&E/#_. 9DŽ9÷ (3 ?ԝWu%)vŅͯTr)FA+(R6ƶw {9zP_ Q^zpk/jXMY n0j0U 0 0 U 0 U iy,]ñtb? i0U #0Àa&WtЕna=⥡01 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U0 U O0 U 0norgaard@locolomo.org08U 10/0-+)'http://www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/ds.crl0 *H ǟ@&<mWc4LS@G4['s5\\VN^`I &>"@>"[xq 89` @sG;LP ]ƜTT|sGٶ2 Ҋctx?'ҭ$0r; 2#ba"%$B p%rԆU ì> !73ȁg6_ I.2Ġ!AaAmF G' bךuf>-dxqq09#XOSk+FuyTvr+p!!}n.6NH' 5+9`CVĩ;7RߔRKIpv&S@P`;%eƓxC uiL Cb Y,)x:3ѓGjRe EtPҰk< c\;9pT9/K̩ L HzMMuʔ(dkskj <ds08PxZ NWC10001 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U0 U O 0 + )0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 060809143626Z0# *H 1yal1_~ػ~l0R *H 1E0C0 *H 0*H 0 *H @0+0 *H (0 +71001 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U0 U O 0 *H 101 0 UES10U Daemon Security1 0 U Certificate Authority1 0 UCertificate Authority1$0" *H ca@daemonsecurity.com1 0U0 U O 0 *H Itm͍ D_sJ';WxjH-5j\ #\| ` MZAU0\5z4e LF4ֆX1\=:;7gpCp3ӓ\#$g"O&\=Y 43\=p^L$KdTHg =ʠ)_vON!;u[}8T)&P6ȠK* -jS0
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