Hangs and slow LTSP PnP Thin Clients

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Don't follow any wiki links for localapps.
ltsp-pnp already has all the applications locally in the "chroot".
You can try to launch a browser locally by running:
$ ltsp-localapps xterm
and then inside the xterm
$ firefox
..but you'll see that 256 MB RAM is too little to run a browser locally.

Also Geode support in Linux is pretty lame, and it's frequently a cause 
for crashes.

Try netbooting a desktop PC, something with e.g. 2 GB RAM and > 2000 
score in cpubenchmark.net. It will automatically boot as a fat client, 
the browser will run locally and flash performance will be fine.

It's time to upgrade your clients to fats. :)


On 26/11/2015 10:06 πμ, Giacomo Trovato wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've an LTSP PnP classroom with 10 Alix2d13 thin clients (AMD Geode LX
> 500 Mhz, 256 MB ram) .
> The server is an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz, 4 GB ram.
>
> I've two main problems:
> - sometimes the thin clients hang without any message (especially with
> graphic applications); could be an hardware or a software problem
> related to Geode drivers? How I can check if I have the proper Geode
> driver installed?
> - the users complain about low Internet performances when all clients
> use game with flash. The server doesn't seem overloaded; I do not think
> a problem related with Internet bandwidth (it's around 6 Mbps). Could be
> a problem related to an overload of thin client? Could be useful to
> install a proxy or install Firefox as local app on thin clients?
>
> Thank you for the answers!
>
>