Chad,
The general formula we use is this:
256mb for the server + ( 50mb * number_of_clients )
So, 60 clients would be: 256 + ( 50 * 60 ) = 256 + 3000 = 3256mb.
That's for an average user that doesn't do a whole lot of OOo and
firefox, but use it occasionally.
For a more intense user, bump it up to 70mb per client.
I've got a server with 140 thin clients, all served by a dual P4-Xeon
2.4ghz with 4gb of ram.
They are using Icewm for the window manager, and about 70 of the users
are allowed to run OOo and Firefox. All of the users are using several
xterm sessions to connect to other servers.
Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Chad wrote:
> So I take it that running about 60 clients off of one server
> should be fine? or does that need to drop down to 40 clients?
>
> I just want to make sure before I make any huge mistakes!
>
> Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote:
>
> > Dear Chad:
> >
> > The configuration you have are more than enough to run anything even in
> > standalone units.
> >
> > Let me give you my configuration. We have 3 thinclients (PI, 32MB, two uses
> > floppy and one uses an old 20MB HDD for network booting) and connected to
> > the Thin Server (PIII Celeron 1 Ghz, 256MB) and we are running everything as
> > well as the development of the eParliament.org on them (I mean for
> > professional purposes for some 9 months) including Quanta, Mozilla, Firefox
> > (both), OO, KMail and several other stuffs without any problem. (Thanks to
> > Jim ;-)
> >
> > About 50MB of RAM should be allocated above 128MB to each thinclients, in my
> > experience.
> >
> > Dr. Sichendra Bista
> > eParliament.org
> >
> >
> > On Monday 29 August 2005 20:51, Chad wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all! I am new to the mailing list and would like to have a
> > > experienced opinions on an LTSP project I am currently working on.
> > > I have been commissioned to build a new Linux network and am
> > > hoping that LTSP will serve my needs.
> > > I am planning on using Fedora Core 3 (or 4, not sure yet) to make
> > > the Thin Network. Using there system specs, how many max Thin
> > > Clients could be on one server?
> > >
> > > Thin Server>
> > > Duel Xeon 3GHz 64bit
> > > 4 Gigs DDR2 memory
> > > 6-500GB SATAII in RAID50 <-home directories
> > > Gigabit Network
> > >
> > > Thin Client>
> > > P4 2.66GHz 64bit
> > > 512MB DDR2
> > > Gigabit Network
> > >
> > > I am wanting applications like Firefox,Thunderbird, Open Office to
> > > run locally on the Clients to keep server loads down.
> > > I know these machines are not typical of an LTSP build, but it is
> > > what the client wants.
> > > Any input on this config would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > ~Chad
> > >
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