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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: MrPorcine on March 03, 2026, 09:12:47 PM

Title: Apache Guacamole working poorly
Post by: MrPorcine on March 03, 2026, 09:12:47 PM

OK, this is a corner case but I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on how to proceed.
I have Apache Guacamole somewhat working. This is piCore16. Whenever Guacamole needs to serve a big change in the underlying display, it fails and the client get a message that it needs to reconnect. Reconnecting works until the next big change in the display.
To make this work at all, you need x11vnc, a java run time edition, tomcat, and guacamole both server and client. I have put this all together. X11vnc is a custom extension loaded by onboot.lst. Tomcat9, Java, and guacamole are concatenated with the piCore base, so they are part of the base filesystem loaded at boot.
And it works - sort of. Using top (busybox edition) it looks like memory is not a issue. Disk space is definitely not an issue. Yet guacamole is resource limited somewhere.
I have the same setup in a Debian Trixie distribution using the same versions of the firmware, the same configuration files and the same startup commands. It works perfectly.
Did I mention this is on a Pi 3, so 1MB of memory.

So my question is how can I find what is limiting guacamole?

Title: Re: Apache Guacamole working poorly
Post by: Paul_123 on March 03, 2026, 09:27:22 PM

Adding to the base increases the size of the rootfs ramdisk.  I would bet it is memory related.   A swap file/partition is not used by default.   But you should try one.

Title: Re: Apache Guacamole working poorly
Post by: MrPorcine on March 04, 2026, 09:20:49 PM

Maybe. When I run free this is the result. Looks OK to me.

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tc@box:~$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         906.7M      401.7M      113.4M      301.5M      391.6M      189.1M
Swap:        149.9M           0      149.9M
tc@box:~$
I'll go back to custom extensions for all and see what happens. Since extensions are loaded into RAM, I don't see the RAM penality for increasing the size of the root file system. It does mean a longer delay before I can put up the first splash screen. If I'm wrong about this, please set me straight.

Title: Re: Apache Guacamole working poorly
Post by: Paul_123 on March 04, 2026, 09:51:23 PM

They are not loaded to ram by default.  They are loop mounted read only file systems.  Only symlinks are created on the rootfs.

True, there is a slightly longer boot.

If it’s not Ram, then it would have to be some IO limitation.  Been a while since I looked, what IO scheduler is Trixie using?