Re: Very slow guest login

Giacomo Trovato <giacomo-o6+VoJyZ4uJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.terminal-server.general
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Hi Dashamir, 

could you please point me to how to modify the script so it can be
executed by a cron job (during night)? 

Thank you very much! 

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Giacomo Trovato

Il 10/01/2019 14:12 Dashamir Hoxha ha scritto:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:05 PM Dashamir Hoxha <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 1:27 PM Giacomo Trovato <giacomo-o6+VoJyZ4uJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> on my school laboratory with LTSP-MATE (server on ESXI) I've 21 fat clients that login as guest.

I just noticed that you are using a VMWare virtual machine. I don't know
anything about its performance 
but a virtual machine with a virtual hard disk should be slower with
disk operations than a real HDD. 
If you could attach a HDD to one of the 21 fat clients and make it a
LTSP server instead, this may improve 
the performance a bit. It may be a lot of work, but this is just another
idea.  

>> I've the reset guest account script. 
>> 
>> The login is very slow when all the students login at the same time (also more than 5 minutes). 
>> 
>> I assume that's because the script copies at the same time all the home folders from the template. 
>> 
>> Is there any way to speedup the process? 
>> 
>> Perhaps executing the script at logout or with a chron job at night?
> 
> In my opinion, resetting on logout is not safe, because a client may shut down abruptly, 
> without making a logout (for example if the power goes off). A nightly reset with a cron job 
> is also not very safe, since there may be multiple login/logout during the day. 
> It is up to you to decide whether these risks are acceptable for your case, depending on your situation. 
> 
> Having said that, you may speed up a bit the process if you use `rsync` for resetting, instead of `rm` and `cp`. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Dashamir

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