Re: NBD swap

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, 08:20 Giacomo Trovato <giacomo-o6+VoJyZ4uJWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:

> Hi Alkis,
>
> finally I've local swap working but unfortunately this doesn't solve my
> problems!
>
> Firefox, Chromium and OpenOffice sometimes crashes suddenly, without any
> reports.
>
> My Atom Fat Clients without LTSP work properly.
>
> I think I've to move reluctantly to local installation for my classrooms!
>
Sorry if this solution has been discussed already, but have you tried to
make one of clients as a LTSP server? This may still be better than
installing Linux on each client.

In any case thank you very much for your help on this project!
>
> ...I'll continue testing...
> ---
>
> Giacomo Trovato
>
>
>
> Il 31/01/2019 15:11 Giacomo Trovato ha scritto:
>
> Hi Alkis,
>
> thanks for the answer!
>
> Now it's clear why I don't see the file, but...
>
> I've also checked the fstab file on my fat clients and there is no remote
> partitions mounted; is it normal?
>
> About local swap, I've tried to create a local swap partition on the hard
> disk and enabled the local swap on lts.conf, but I see zero swap space with
> top command.
>
> I can try again!
> ---
>
> Giacomo Trovato
>
>
>
> Il 31/01/2019 13:14 Alkis Georgopoulos ha scritto:
>
> Hi Giacomo,
>
> 1) This isn't local swap; you said you were having problems with local
> swap as well. NBD swap may have issues (although I don't see any
> instability with this myself); local swap shouldn't have any ltsp-related
> issues.
> 2) This file gets created by nbdswapd and deleted after 10 seconds, while
> the client can still access it through its open file handles.
> It's normal procedure, you can read the ltsp source code for details.
>
>
> Στις 31/1/19 1:58 μ.μ., ο Giacomo Trovato έγραψε:
>
> Hi Alkis,
>
> the point is simple...
>
> On my log I see this:
>
> Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[16146]: Spawned a child process
> Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13619]: virtstyle ipliteral
> *Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13619]: connect from 172.20.1.33,
> assigned file is /tmp/nbd-swap/172.20.1.33*
>
> Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13619]: Can't open authorization file /etc/ltsp/nbd-server.allow (No such file or directory).
>
> Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13619]: Size of exported file/device is 536870912
> Jan 31 12:35:08 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13619]: Starting to serve
> Jan 31 12:35:13 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[16146]: Spawned a child process
> Jan 31 12:35:13 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13633]: virtstyle ipliteral
>
> Jan 31 12:35:13 Mate32LTSP nbd_server[13633]: connect from 172.20.1.33, assigned file is /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img
>
> But I've not such file on my server!
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