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[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ray Garza wrote:

> > Interesting.  If you turn off LOCALDEV and SOUND on a thin client (just for
> > the sake of interest), does this change much?
> >
> It could be but since I booted from a floppy I did hear a lot of floppy 
> accesses. I got a nother PC (thats a Celeton 1.4 GHz) that can boot from the 
> NIC and see if there is any difference.

The floppy booting shouldn't be an issue.  What I'm wondering is just
whether having LOCALDEV and SOUND turned on is slowing down the boot time
as it involves some extra steps at logon.

> I'm gonna try that 1.4 Ghz Celeron PC and see if that makes any difference.

That could be interesting alright.

> > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/
> >
> I could try that but it'll be next week before I can get to it.

Well, it seems like you're trying to get an idea which to use first so I'll
let you figure that out.  However, it would be interesting to try and
improve things too.  Whether unencrypting ssh is an improvement is
questionable, but it might help us tell where the slowdown is.  I must try
getting this going myself at some point.  If we have the patch packaged up,
things would be a little easier.

> My overall impression of Edbuntu is good. I really like getting basic
> sound to work with out a lot of hassle. The rest is just a learning curve
> that I have to go through.

LTSP5 is very impressive alright and the recent addition of PulseAudio
seems to have been very positive.

Gavin