We've set up a small group of PCs acting as Internet kiosks. With 4 or less machines, it works great. After the 5th PC connects, the performance for the users starts to degrade - browsing seems slower and window movement becomes less smooth. With more than 6 clients active, the screens become noticeably jerky. Previously these PCs were running Windows 2000, and browsed the internet smoothly on a 10M hub.
Here's the setup: Server - Dell: 1.1Ghz Celeron, IDE ATA-100 drive, 512MB ram Red Hat 9 LTSP 3.0.9 running KDE customized for autologin and a minimal desktop with the only application being MozillaFirebird .61 There are no other applications running on the server, and only MozillaFirebird is offered on the client. Clients: HP Brios, Celeron 500, 64 MB RAM, Intel i810 video Network: Dell 10/100 switch. It appears the server and clients are all connecting at 100. The upstream connection to the internet is 10 MB to router. We've run the system monitoring utility on the server, it doesn't look like the CPU, memory or drive is maxed out, and there doesn't appear to be much swapping. I'm not too savvy on linux performance monitoring though... Any general thoughts on what to look at short of a faster server? I'd like to get to 8 clients with the existing hardware if possible. Is there some basic tuning/setup step I've missed? Is 4-5 clients all I should expect from a Celeron server? Thanks Tim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.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
