[Arm-netbook] odroid-u2 running 5 simultaneous xrdp sessions

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2013/4/21 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>:
> http://lkcl.net/articles/odroid_u2_xrdp_5users.png
>
> this is hilarious.  above is a screen-shot of 5 instances of rdesktop
> running on the little odroid-u2 on which xrdp and xfce have been
> installed (size of the odroid-u2: 45mm square PCB).  just a reminder:
> the odroid-u2 is running with 2gb of RAM and it's a quad-core 1.7ghz
> ARM Cortex A9.  it has 3 USB ports and 1 RJ-45 for 10/100 ethernet.
> it takes eMMC modules and a Micro-SD card - hardkernel.com sell $25
> 8gb NAND eMMC modules and $80 32gb ones.
>
> only the fact that i didn't set up swap space onto a NAND partition
> (so as not to destroy it in short order) nor ran a USB HDD swap
> partition (because it's in storage somewhere) stopped me from running
> 10 or more sessions.  each new user added about 150mbyte of RAM to
> "top".  yes that's xfce in each of the 1024x768 rdesktop sessions.
> load average at idle is showing around 4 (there are 4 CPUs so that's
> 100% CPU on each, at idle).  firefox and libreoffice are running in
> each session.
>
> so it's pushing the limits, but definitely doable.
>
> l.

Intriguing.

Try ZRAM, and see how far you push it then. ;-)

M.

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