localapps

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:45 AM,  <rmcdaniel at indata.us> wrote:
> Localapps seem to run slower than a similar app on the server.  My thin
> clinets are HP T5530 with 256MB.  Is there a setting that can be changed
> to improve the performance?  For example when I start Firefox as an
> localapp, it takes about 5 seconds to load.  Running Firefox from the
> server takes about 2 seconds.  It also seems a little slugish when the
> localapp is running.

Your clients are not very powerful so they cannot run firefox very
fast. Plus it will always take longer to launch a local app cause the
binary executable has to be copied to local ram over the network.
However, the more ram you have in the client the better because your
local kernel will cache application data. So the second time you
launch firefox it will be faster. I tested this and found you need a
min. of 512MB on the client to have firefox cached. I did not see any
increase in launching firefox a second time with only 256MB.

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Robert Arkiletian
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