Jason, Before we can talk about hardware, you really need to tell us more about the software.
What applications will the "average" users be using ? Will they settle for a lightweight window manager like Icewm ? One thing I can tell you is that we deployed a server that now has 140 thin clients on it. The server is a dual P3-650Mhz with 1gb of ram. The machine is now in desparate need of an upgrade, in fact, a new machine has been ordered to replace it. It ran fine upto about 110 clients. We were able to get so many clients connected, because we chose IceWM as the window manager, and most users are just using an xterm session to telnet into another server to enter transactions into a database. This may be similar to your call center application. About half of those users are allow to run Mozilla and StarOffice, but they don't spend all day in those apps. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jason Greene wrote: > We are evaluating Linux in the Company I work for. We have over 60k desktops. > > I'm on the evaluation team and I'm really pushing the LTSP idea for call > centers and the like. > > What I'd like to ask the LTSP team and all it s users is "What is the > capicity of a server?" Meaning how many users can a server haneld. > > I know it depends on hardware so if you can maybe be specific as in > lets say I had Dell Quad-Xeon 2.8Ghz with 32GB ram and enough harddisk space > for the users. How may "average" users could this server handle? > > This may be a vague question butwe are trying to put some numbers together for > our evaluation project. > > If you have any questions for me to better help you answer this question > please feel free to ask. > > Thanks > Jason > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
