On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:02, Chris Puttick wrote: > A load balancing solution based on XDMCP is under development by a company > called Fen Systems - it will be available soon (i.e. it's in use by the > company already, but they want to tidy it up before making it generally > available).
are there any beta releases available yet? do you know if it will be released under an open source license? it's exactly what ltsp needs to be entirely scaleable ... as i understand there's no real solution yet (except for some test runs with LVS). and the embedded lts doesn't scale for more than 2 servers, which is a shame really because the setup is very straightforward. tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Schouteden > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 1/29/03 12:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp capacity on server > > What about setting up let's say 3 modestly configured servers (1GB) each > and load balance between the 3? It offers you better redundancy and > cheaper disks. If it is possible to load balance ltsp though. > > tom > > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, that's reasonable. But even a refurbished Dell 4350 won't run > > without RAM. Since we're talking 4 gig here, the RAM itself is going > > to cost you more than 1.5 times the price of that server. Depending > > on the budget at hand that might not be acceptable anymore. > > > > > > > > On 28-Jan-03 R P Herrold wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >> Mmm? ... > > >> Let me see? ... > > >> 75 times 50 plus 256 makes 4006 ... > > >> 8-o) ... whoops ... that's a little less than 4 gig ... > > >> 8-o) ... I wonder which affordable box can swallow all that? > > > > > > You are used to setting units up one-off. A used Dell 4350 > > > off Ebay is perhaps $1200 without ram, but with SCSI raided > > > drives, reasonable processor speed. 50 seats makes the server > > > cost $24 a seat. Seems reasonable to me. > > > > > > - Russ Herrold > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > 28-Jan-03 17:34:49 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) > > -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
