[ale] SWAP over NFS

[Jeff Hubbs]

Why not run the RAM-hungry apps on a server and just export the displays 
to the diskless workstations a la LTSP?  In Jim's, Aaron's, and my 
Atlanta Public Schools project, we found that multiple instances of 
Firefox serving dozens of workstations doesn't have a horribly bad RAM 
footprint (unless of course FF, the Flash plugin, or Java got to 
seriously misbehaving).  Best to throw RAM into an app server.

Chris Fowler wrote:
> I've been doing more playing and got SWAP over NFS to work via Xubuntu
> 7.10 on a machine with 128m of memory
>
> It is becoming clear to me that to keep up with the latest software like
> firefox and a 64mb or even a 128mb diskless workstation no longer
> exists.  Xubuntu over NFS becomes useless once Xfce fires up.  I've
> watched vmstat in another window and the swap over NFS does work but the
> amount being swapped out is outrageous.
>
> I guess I could get the box running on an earlier FC disti but what
> about memory hungry firefox?  I think the best thing is that diskless
> workstations have at least 512m of memory.
>
> Chris
>
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