On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:58, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:52:38AM +0100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 19:39, Knut Yrvin wrote: > > > An interesting test about memory usage og LTSP from Jonathan Carter: > > > > It would be interesting to see the effect of "unifying" the LTSP chroot > > with the server (hardlinking identical files in the chroot and server). > > This allows linux to share memory between the server and clients. > > Provided the server and chroot are running identical distributions, most > > disk buffering and libraries can be shared. I bet you would see about > > 30M saving for GDM for example... > > This will save disk space and perhaps server I/O, but not memory. The > clients run programs in the chroot over NFS, on different physical machines, > and the server doesn't run programs in the chroot at all normally.
Yeah, I forgot that it doesn't run in the chroot... was thinking of vservers. However, it does mean much less disk buffers/cache is used, and stuff read via nfs is more likely to be already buffered in RAM. It should make startup time faster if nothing else... -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
