Le mercredi 3 novembre 2010 20:58:00, theluketaylor a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Xavier Brochard <xav...@alternatif.org> wrote: > > I'm in the process to update the server of one of my customers. It is a > > small non-profit company. > > ... > > The server will run LTSP (Debian Squeeze) with KDE4 or Gnome > > + a virtualized Windows 2003 (or 2008) with 3 applications accessed > > seamlessly with rdesktop. > > + a web proxy cache, because they have a very low ASDL line (squid ?) > > > > But I didn't followed the list since june and I need some advices: > > > > - I plan to buy a server with 2 CPUs (2 sockets) because of bandwith. I > > think that multi-core CPUs are not sufficient. Am I wrong? in such a > > small company, can a single 4 core CPU do the job? > > One thing to consider would be a xeon 56xx CPU which can be had in 6 > core/12 thread versions. A lot cheaper than populating a whole second > socket but 50% more horsepower than a 4 core CPU. 6 core also seems > to fit nicely with your 6 users :)
yes, good point I'm not very afraid of CPU power, except for flash or videos. Luckily the low ASDL line will prevent them to see HD video on the web ;-) But what about the virtualized windows? I thought it need to send a lot of datas to the CPU, and for that reason I thought that it is better to have 2 CPUs. > don't force > squid to cache over the network, it will be a pretty big bottleneck. > Just buy a dedicated disk for squid, with 1 TB drives for less then > $100 it's hard to go wrong and you don't really care if it dies. Just > drop another one in and wait for squid to re-populate. In fact the > quid guys recommend NOT using a RAIDed disk. Thanks a lot. I didn't know that. Xavier xav...@alternatif.org - 09 54 06 16 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
