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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About memory allocation failures....
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-04 22:14:46
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On Monday 04 February 2002 18:04, Kuba Ober wrote:
> That's true, although kde doesn't really work on systems with per-user
> limits. I'm working periodically on one such a system (freebsd 1gig ram
> student server with 2 decent pIII processors, top-notch motherboard,
> top-notch scsi drives, 2gig of swap with disk-file-to-disk-file dd transfer
> of about 100mb/s) - as soon as two student labs (about 15 machines) run kde
> (just starting the desktop), things get itchy, and then each student has
> otherwise-reasonable limits (2 minutes process runtime is one of them) -
> kde is useless on such a system. Nobody can help, and the small
> memory-watcher utility won't help either. Kde does a good job on a single
> user workstations without limits in place, or on small servers with less
> than a few users. I don't know what kind of hardware would one need (and if
> such beasts exist at all) to run a 100 user kde desktop server (with x
> terminals attached via ethernet).... :-(

Doesn't the legendary "City of Largo" exactly that ?
Running a lot (tens to hundreds) clients with one big server ?

Search the dot for it.

Bye
Alex
 
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