Re: NBD swap

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

I'm testing now Debian 9 with LXDE that seems very light. 

Can I follow your Wiki to install LTSP on Debian? 

I've followed this (https://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto) but I see an old
Epoptes version (0.5.10). 

Thank you!

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Giacomo Trovato

Il 01/02/2019 11:52 Dashamir Hoxha ha scritto:

> 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...
> 
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> 
> 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!
> 
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> 
> 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 [1]*
> 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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