nigel barker wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions guys
....
I don;t get how to have a server just for open office. How do you do that?
Your menu link contains something like:
ssh -X officeserver.mydomain.com /usr/bin/ooffice
Use NFS to export the home directories from your main file server and
then on the openoffice server, use /home as a mount point to the other
server's /home files.
USE NIS or OpenLDAP so all the servers share a unified user
account base with matching UID's Home directories.
To see the power of cache ram, run memtest sometime and observer the
speed tests it performs on regular memory verses cache ram.
It is faster by an astonishing ratio of perhaps 10:1.
There are other ways of launching applications on other servers while
setting the $DISPLAY environment value back to the user's X-Window
session. RCP comes to mind. Sidestepping SSH could offer a huge
performance gain. There are ways to turn off compression and encryption
for an SSH connection too which could increase efficiency.
Dave Richards of Largo, Florida's city governents explained to me once
how he has the desktop servers make rpc calls to launch programs to the
thin client's screen. It's really a brilliant tactic.
-Joe Baker
Burlington, Wisconsin and St. Louis, Missouri
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