[K12OSN] Load average sky-high but why????????

[Petre Scheie]

Considering that K12LTSP used to work great for you, I'd advocate, as a 
worse-case-scenario, reverting to version 4.4.1 rather than wasting a bunch of money on 
Windows systems.  And those who are asking for Windows systems are kidding themselves if 
they think they'll have more reliable computers that way.

Sorry, I don't have any answer as to why your loads are so high.  I assume memory on the 
  server is still sufficient, that you're not swapping, correct?   I, too, am seeing 
some weird stuff with this latest release, but I put the responsibility on Fedora, not 
the LTSP/Ed packages on top of it.  Two of my current issues:

1) As mentioned previously, the mouse cursor on the console disappears after the first 
user at the console logs out.  So far, only a reboot fixes the problem.

2) A new, /really/ weird problem popped up this weekend: If I run K3B on the console, it 
causes the server's networking to stop working.  Again, rebooting is the only way I've 
found so far to fix the problem.

So, I'm feeling a bit jaded about FC5.

Petre


dahopkins at comcast.net wrote:
> I love k12tlsp, really, really, but .... recently it seems all I can do is 'complain'.  After the rebuild of my systems here at NCS, the load average is hitting 2+ with just a few users (4 or 5).  This is new behavior.  Using top, firefox seems to take alot of the CPU, as does StarOffice.  Now, the system is also using software RAID 1.  I was leery about this but resorted to it because anaconda does not support my RAID card, and getting k12ltsp onto the system via other methods was also proving to be difficult.
> 
> In the prior years, there were not issues until we reached 40 Users on a system.  Now, I am at wits end.  Teachers/staff/anyone connecting to the system are becoming very very upset, to the point that they are asking for Windows and desktop systems (which is a huge change in attitude from the prior years).
> 
> Because of state proxy setups, I can't use IRC, so I am left with email.
> 
> Again, this is alot of frustration and I am sure the solution will be simple.  I am not seeing it.
> 
> Sorry for the Monday morning crisis.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
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