[K12OSN] Clients freezing

[Almquist Burke]

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On May 14, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Mathieu Pelletier wrote:
>  Anyway, can you confirm that a 10/100 connection on the client  
> should be enough as long as the server is using a gigabit NIC?
100 mbits is just fine on the clients. Back in the old days, you  
could even get by with 10, but then you had some clients running  
telnet apps and much lower screen resolutions and color depths. It's  
that uplink on the switch to the server that really need gigabit  
(some people even trunk two gigabit links together if they have a  
super beefy server and a whole lot of clients)


> Thanks again... This is a relief knowing that it is not a problem  
> with my configuration files.  Are there any special configuration  
> tricks I can employ in the interim that might lessen the  
> saturation?  I am already running Firefox and OpenOffice as local  
> apps.

The biggest thing to do is to lower the resolution and/or color depth  
on the clients. I'd make sure the client's aren't using more than 16  
bit color first. They if you still need to, you can lower the  
resolution (this works better on CRTs than it does on LCDs since LCDs  
have a "native resolution" that things look best at, whereas CRT  
monitors are a little more graceful at scaling downward (of course  
they use more power too). You should be able to set these settings in  
the lts.conf file, if my memory is correct.

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