Hi James On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 12:16 -0600, James Call wrote: > We have 25 diskless terminals hooked up to a server and whenever the > students use tuxtyping, gcompris, or look at a web page with some > animation/flash then the server gets totally dogged down and terminals > start locking up.
I think the last version of tuxtyping is not appropriate for LTSP anymore. It has just become too network intensive :( I've pested the tux4kids developers about it on their IRC channel, and it seems that they will add an option to disable the animation on the main screen (which is the biggest culprit). We've removed tuxtype from tuXlabs, until they have a fix. I think the problems with GCompris is memory problems caused by bugs, that is hopefully fixed in recent versions (I'm testing this in a lab again soon). > We are using a AMD dualcore with 3gig memory and ipaq desktop diskless > PXE boots. > Now everyone at our school thinks it is awesome and want us to expand > to about 50 terminals next year. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you add another server. 3GB of RAM is already a bare-minumum for 24 workstations (more RAM would already be nice for that amount of workstations). Using a thin client network is already saving money, stretching server capacity too far is just cutting too many corners. > What can we do?? We are in Mexico and our budget is a big constraint. I understand, we have huge budget constraints here in South Africa too. What we're going to do is, roll out our labs with Xfce as apposed to Gnome, which is nearly as good as Gnome in terms of usability and other cool things, but is way less CPU and RAM intensive, and is more appropriate for LTSP labs. The next version of Edubuntu may also have an optional, Edubuntu-customised Xfce set up, although you can already install Xfce and customise it yourself (Xfce is quite easy to customise to your needs). hth -Jonathan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
