Sudev; The LTSP client provides a frame buffer and network mechanism for rendering windows from applications running on remote machines. The client must have enough CPU throughput to manage the network interface and render the window images in the memory of the video card.
Video cards come in different capabilities and the accelerated cards can offload some of the rendering from the CPU. In my experience, 386 class computers just don't have enough CPU resources to render the images into the video card memory in real time. I have a '486 computer that I have tried with several video cards while running LTSP, and have only been marginally satisfied with it. The ISA video card took *way* too much time to get it to work and determining that it would only run in 8 bit mode (256 colors), even though it had enough memory for 16 K colors. For me, the minimum is a Pentium CPU, accelerated video and 24 Mb RAM. Tom Griffing > From: Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Low end clients > > Can any guru tell me where my reasoning if wrong when I conclude that in > LTSP environment all processing is being done on the server so why > should a low end client like a 386 machine run slow? Once the client > connection is established this should also run as fast as a PIV client. > Why it does not as experience shows? > -- > Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas L. Griffing Red Hat Certified Engineer Pondus Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
