[Coco] Possible DW server

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

>> But, forget about running the GUI.  Too cramped for that.
>>
>> Hopefully it's still possible to run the server separately? I haven't tried
>> this with any of Aaron's newer code and there appears to have been an
>> integration of the GUI and server.
>>
>
> The server and GUI are contained in the same jar file, and by default
> they start and stop together to make things easy for basic users.
>
> However, you can use command line options to start only the UI or only
> the server, and the UI can talk to the server over any IP network.
>
> The server runs fine on a Linksys NSLU2, which has only 32MB of ram.
> The GUI works on the Raspberry Pi, which has less than 256mb ram
> (total depends on how much you allocate to GPU ram).  It may well be
> that the GUI can in fact run on that little laptop.  Its typical ram
> usage is only about 20MB.

Interesting.  I wonder why I wasn't able to start the GUI on the Dockstar? 
In my case, it was actually more convenient to bring up the GUI on my 
desktop machine and connect to the headless server.



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