Re: [Drbl-user] X seems to lock up client

[Kevin d. <kde...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Robert Arkiletian <ro...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Kevin dePfyffer <kde...@gm...> wrote:
>> Maybe its my network but X seems to be slow and even lock up, I havent
>> waited more than a few minutes to see if it recovers but was wondering
>> if there were any tips on getting better performance (other than the
>> tips on the website)
>
> DRBL should not affect X. X server is local on the client so network
> bandwidth is not really an issue other than downloading binaries of
> the OS. Try using a different video card or another client. Although I
> have not tried F14 I am using F13 with no problems.
>
>> In the tips it suggest to use reiserfs but the benchmark page does not
>> include EXT4, Does reiserfs make that much difference? (I'll look up
>> reiserfs vs EXT4)
>>
>
> Don't use reiserfs. Use ext4 instead. The tips was probably written
> before ext4 came out.

Thats what I figured but have never looked into the differences
between the reiserfs and ext4

>> Server specs
>> Fedora 14 DRBL stable build Full DRBL
>> Base Board Information
>>        Product Name: A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
>> Processor Information
>>        Socket Designation: SOCKET 939
>>        Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
>> ** off topic ** Will be upgrading to 4 GB soon - BTW is there a
>> problem with my dims being 160ns and board says supported speeds are
>> 50-70!!?
>
> check it with an overnight memtest. Also adding ram does not have the
> same affect as it does on ltsp. It simply provides more cache for nfs.
>
>> (X4) Memory Module Information
>>        Current Speed: 160 ns
>>        Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
>>        Type: DDR
>>        Speed: 266 MHz
>> Hard drives
>> 4 (no raid) Seagate 7200rpm SATA II 320GB EXT4
>>
>
> if you value your data look into software raid 1.

I have been running SW raid 5 for about 3 years on this box, when a
drive went down and my LVM went south I dropped it. Waiting till I can
upgrade to 1tb drive before i mess with it again and i'm pretty much
done with lvm (this is just a home server btw - no production)

>> Client Specs
>> PXEboot
>> Product Name    HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebook PC
>> AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-58
>> Memory Type     DDR2 (PC2-5300)
>> Capacity        1024 MBytes
>>
>
> I'll bet your video card is not well supported. See if others are
> having issues with your particular video chipset.

Good old nvidia, I installed the Nvidia driver, I'll remove that and
see if nouveau works any better, I'll also try it on one of my sons
machine.
I'll also copy over the xorg.conf file so I can mess with it a bit.

Thanks for the info - I'll post any results/ fixes I come up with.