<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>OK Gadi, we'll try this, thanks! Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gideon Romm" <ltsp@symbio-technologies.com> To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:40:35 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [K12OSN] setting quotas per user to solve our slow login process On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 12:38 -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:25 -0400, Daniel Howard wrote: > > Dan Young wrote: > > > Sounds like: > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/357268 > > > > > > If you're not using localapps, you can test to see if this is the bug by: > > > > > > cd /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ldm/rc.d/ > > > mv X01-localapps oldX01-localapps > > > > > > Then reboot your terminal. > > Thanks Dan. We tried it to no avail. This seems like a bug because we > > switched a server back to K12LTSP and had 1000+ accounts up, no problem, > > boot up in seconds. Unfortunately that is likely to be the solution for > > the time being until we can resolve the large number of accounts/slow > > bootup issue with K12Linux, or anyone can suggest other avenues for us > > to explore. Thanks, Daniel > > Daniel, > > K12LTSP is based on LTSP5, which uses ssh to login to the server. Can > you test to see if running: ssh -Y user@server from another box takes > a long time? > > If so, then add "-vvv" to the ssh command line, like: ssh -vvv -Y > user@server > > This will make ssh verbose and you will see at what point it hangs. > > By default, sshd on the server runs through several authentication > mechanisms, and if it takes earlier/unused ones time to fail, you'll > feel it. You can optimize things by identifying the one that fails and > turning it off in the sshd_config file. A common one I have seen is: > GSSAPIAuthentication > > Sometimes, setting that to "no" will speed up ssh logins a great deal. > > -Gadi > Oops! I meant to say "K12Linux is based on LTSP5" -- -------------------------------------------------------- Gideon Romm | Proud LTSP Developer ltsp@symbio-technologies.com Pay It Forward! Intel Atom 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM + Symbiont Boot Stick = $275 10% of order goes to school or open source project of your choice! Buy yourself a lab or office and use your donation to set up a school, pay for a desperately needed feature added to a software package, or sponsor part of LTSP's annual developer's conference LTSP-by-the-sea! Check out: http://www.symbio-technologies.com/payitforward _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> </div></body></html>