Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:02 pm, Alex younts wrote:
>
>> My suggestion would go something like this:
>>Server: Dual Athlon 2000+ with 3GB of DDR RAM and SCSI hard drives with a
>> 1Gbps connection to your switch
>>Client: AMD Duron 600 with 32MB of RAM and a 100Mbps NIC
>> However, depending on what how many things the users are doing,
>>that may not work if you are running programs server-side. A better
>>suggestion would be: Server: Dual Athlon 1800+ with 1GB of DDR RAM and IDE
>>RAID with a 1Gbps connection to your switch
>>Client: AMD Duron 800 with 128MB of RAM and a 100Mbps NIC running
>>local-apps Overall, that would be much cheaper than running Windows XP with
>>1.5GHz CPU's and 256MB of RAM and a large file server. Plus, if you only
>>run OpenOffice on the clients, then your server should be able to support
>>all of the clients if you use less user "friendly" apps (instead of using
>>Mozilla use Konqueror).
>>
>
> Durons on the client??? terrible waste of cpu power and money, what is the
> use for a thin client then? Take old pc's my boy pentia or maybe even early
> pentia 2 or K6's. And read what you write... he's talking about 500 clients.
> Are you often opening 2500 or more apps on a computer with 3 gigs of ram? I
> don't think so... He needs 8 gigs, preferably more (filesystem caching /home
> and /usr directory stuff can mean a HUGE performance boost.) If you find a
> socket A mobo suporting 3 gigs of ram that is. If only those people will all
> be writing a letter or surfing the web, the cpu's would just be overloaded
> and everything would be dead-slow. Athlons are OK for up to 50 clients, maybe
> I'd try 100. But not in this case.
>
> Frank
>
> P.S. to the O.P. If this is finished, let me please know how this went in the
> end. Wanna know all about it and have a success story for the non-believers.
>
>
>
Yeah I would look for a 4-8 way COMPAQ or HP server on ebay and kick the RAM way
up, if you can't spread this across several strategically placed 2 way servers.
One alternative if you have durons is to run some of the apps local on the
duron. This would require a pretty hefty NFS server and a well designed network
though.
--
Crayne's law: All computers wait at the same speed.
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