15 workstations should work just fine, even over a 10mb network. 16mb of ram should also be fine. Don't worry about swap.
What window manager are you running? Have you turned the screen savers off ? Those screen savers will suck the life right out of your network. Have you tried running 'top' on the server, to see if you have any run-away processes ? You are using IDE drive on the server, have you turned on DMA transfers ? If the font server is still set at unix/-1, then the workstations are clearly NOT using the font server, so don't worry about that either. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prolinux wrote: > I have exactly the same problem (we try to click on > something but it take a while before it can process > correctly), I am using a single Pentium3-800 w/1GB > RAM SIS 630 & 20Gb IDE HDD as a LTSP 2.08 Mandrake >8.0 server. My terminals are 15 Pentium 75-16Mb 500Mb > HDD & 3c509 NIC. My network is over normal 10Mb >hubs. Is it posible to fine tune my current server to > accomplish trouble-free LTSP with those 15 terminals? > My client has a very low budget and this is my first > experience with LTSP configuration. Swap is not > currently enable for terminals, if I use local HD > swap or swap over NFS, can I expect better >performance? > Also I think my font server is not properly > configured (unix/-1 not 7100), does it can affect >performance? > > Thanks, > > Hugo > > >>--- Éric Langevin >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >>Hi, >> >>>we use ltsp 2.8 with mandrake 8.1. >>>our server : dual P-III with 2G RAM 2 X 18 G HDD >>>SCSI in mirror. >>>we use KDE 2.2 for our GUI interface. >>>kernel 2.4.8 >>>We have a lab with 17 pc P-75 or 120 with 32 Megs >>>RAM and 3Com 10Mbps. >>>our lab is connected to a 10Mbps hub and our >>> >>server >> >>>is on a 100Mbps switch >>>Basically our users need Netscape (4.78),Open >>>Office 6.38c and some games like chess, ksokoban, >>>etc. >>> >>>When we try to use it all, we encounter an >>> >>extremely >> >>>slow connexion. Let me explain it in detail. >>> >>>loading the graphical login is ok. >>>login in is ok >>>opening in each pc Netscape and Open Office >>> >>still >> >>>ok. >>>But after approx 5 min we have very slow connexion >>> >>>(we try to click on something but it take a while >>>before it can process correctly). >>> >>>we fine tune our server as suggested in the doc >>> >>>file-max = 65500 >>> >>>inode-max is not present >>> >>>we can't find max task in >>>/usr/src/linux/include/tasks.h even with a search >>> >>on >> >>>the whole HDD. >>> >>>Another question : how many terminals can we >>> >>expect >> >>>to run with our configuration? >>> >>>thank you very much! >>> >>> >>>We're on a big linux project with the gouvernment >>> >>of >> >>>Quebec in Canada. If it works well, linux could be >>>proposed to other school board in our province. >>> >>> >>>Eric Langevin >>>technicien informatique >>>Commission scolaire des Hauts-Cantons >>>tél: (819) 849-7051 poste 233 >>> >>> >>> >_____________________________________________________________________ > >>>Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or >>>change prefs, goto: >>> >>> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > >>>For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on >>> >>irc.openprojects.net >> >> >_________________________________________________________ > >>Do You Yahoo!? >>¿Quieres armar tu própia página Web pero no sabes >>HTML? >>Usa los asistentes de edición de Yahoo! Geocities >>y tendrás un sitio en sólo unos minutos. >>Visítanos en http://espanol.geocities.yahoo.com >> >> > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >¿Quieres armar tu própia página Web pero no sabes HTML? >Usa los asistentes de edición de Yahoo! Geocities >y tendrás un sitio en sólo unos minutos. >Visítanos en http://espanol.geocities.yahoo.com > >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
