Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Dirk wrote: > > >> myselve wrote: >> >>> I have now: fresh 7.04 amd64, no patches, no changes, working clients >>> (1280x1024), console still unchangable 640x480 >>> >>> Client freeze after 1,5 hour working (no mouse, nothing). Client working >>> perfect with other servers. No syslog-messages. >>> >>> >> hmm, second freeze while opening the same 1,7MB-eMail with thunderbird >> like the first time (Devon IT LT210). Has jpg, pdf and doc attached. >> No messages. ssh to the server is okay. >> >> Tried second Client (FSC FUTRO A230). Didn't freeze while opening this >> mail. >> > > Assuming Gavin is correct below what are the differences between these two units ?
> This sounds almost certainly to be the same issue we've discussed here > before, with firefox instead of thunderbird. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2007-August/thread.html#1811 > > What happens is firefox (or in your case thunderbird) on the server sends a > shed load of image data to X on the thin client. So much that X grows to > use all available memory on the thin client and the client crashes. It > will help (if you can do it) to have extra memory in the thin client. > > There are a couple of not too well developed workarounds discussed in the > thread. One is a patch to firefox v3 (thunderbird would need a separate > fix). The other is a "shim" file which can apparently limit the amount of > memory X will allocate. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2007-December/003060.html > > This is a difficult problem to fix I'm afraid. > > Gavin > > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
