On Friday 25 August 2006 03:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just a guess. How much RAM? This could be the choke point with swap > > usage then slowing down things. > > Other than that with four clients should not be a problem unless some > > one is using chess program ( or similar) which take hige processor > > time slice. (Something with nice settings) Use "top" to investigate. > > Right now I have 512MB RAM in the machine > > Swap is almost always being used, so sure that is part of it. > > Top usually shows Xorg (with ~ 7% CPU and 7% MEM) or firefox-bin (forget > numbers, but as high as 10 and 20%) sitting at the top. Firefox is > usually at the top once the 3 and 4 year old are on. (They like > Nickjr.com and such sites)
The original question is lost in the noise! a) You really want lots more RAM b) AMD X2 works well and has lots of technical pluses. c) Can anybody declare that core duo intels work *marvelously*? d) I see opterons hyped e) I am mostly happy with my X2, comparing to my P4/3G, but (ABIT AN8 939) I'm sometimes uummmish: skype crackles terribly when doing disk io (WD raptor SATA) eg a backup (P4 did NOT) Response is sometimes sluggish ie 1 cpu is tied up eg starting VMware-server the other IS free but mouse movement is sticky Burn a CD AND work the other CPU and Burn fails! All of which point at IO, but my P4 competed very well in all the above. Natch YMMV, and I've tried only two MBs an ASUS AN8 that kept freezing and now the ABIT AN8. Upto 5 clients James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
