Hello all... this is something not particular to the two groups i send it, but with both groups i hope to find the best answer:
here my plans: i want to offer the clients in a fast network a full desktop by using a thinclient solution. the clients are running only the X-Server, all apps, including the full gnome environment are running on one/more "desktop"-servers. so the server has to be as fast and big as possible. the clients need to be able to display gnome and other graphical stuff as fast as possible. in a small very low powerd testenvironment, i found this: Server: 500mhz athlon, 512mb memory, 100mbits LAN, 60gb hardisk, 3dfx voodoo3/16mb. kernel 2.4.18, garnome 0.20.0 installed for all users Client: 700mhz duron, 256mb memory, 10mbits LAN, geforce 2mx/32mb X11 4.2(?) The desktop seems to run more smooth and answer more quickly on the client than on the server. the display of possible backgroundimages seems to be faster on the server the result leads me to: The Client is faster because of more and faster videomemory available t o X, the loading of the background image over the network seems to be the reason for the advantage of the server, perhaps a 100mbit LAN in the Client can correct this. So: the Speed (and smoothness) of the Clientdisplay of the desktop depends mainly on videomemory and speed of the client. larger images require faster network. (i'm not interested in playing videos on the Client) my question: when i choose hardware for the clients, will it be sufficient to take lowend processor, e.g. a via C3, combine it with a fast vga, e.g. ati radeon w/128mb? would it be sufficient to take a lowend vga, because speed depends only on the server? do i need a fast cpu and a fast vga? i hope anyone of you could help me finding the right hardware, or understanding speed of X or xdmcp. JS ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.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.freenode.net