[K12OSN] setting quotas per user to solve our slow login process

[David Hopkins]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM,  <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
> Login via K12Linux thin clients is fast and zippy initially with a hundred
> or so accounts on the server, but becomes painfully slow after a few hundred
> user accounts are set up, and when we added all students (1050 of them),
> login takes over 5 minutes.  It clearly has something to do with the number
> of user accounts and I'm guessing potentially the limited hard disk space
> (about 100 GB) per server.  Any help appreciated, we're stuck at this
> point!  Thanks, Daniel
>

Is nscd running?  You don't mention how you are authenticating, but I
have found that if I don't have nscd running on our systems (both the
ltsp server as well as the authentication server), then logins can be
exceptionally slow.  We have 1300+ accounts active at present and no
issues with logins but we are also still using LTSP 4.2.  I also
noticed during my testing of K12Linux that logins were very slow but
thought that was due to a bug (have to search the LTSP forum) which
was fixed in a later patch.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
Newark Charter School