Thanks for the quick reply Tobias. Is there a number for hard drive space needed? Is each thin client assigned it's own desktop or does it come from a single image each start?
Thanks, Jim ________________________________ James Louis | Senior System Administrator Scholarship America® 1550 American Blvd E | Suite 155 | Minneapolis, MN 55425 952.830.7314 (dir) | 800.279.2083 (tf) | 952.830.1929 (f) Rated a Four-Star Charity by Charity Navigator. Because College Doesn't Happen By Chance®. Skype: techn0gichida http://www.crossloop.com/techn0gichida "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself" - John Dewey -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Abt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] clients per server Hi Jim! Jim Louis schrieb: > I have not found anything to suggest what the client/server ratio would > be? Can someone suggest server requirements for 80 clients? 80 clients does not yet seem too demanding, this should work fine with a single server. It all depends a bit on how the clients are operated. If all are started at the same time (classroom where all are powered on at the start of the lesson) you have a higher peak workload as when they are started randomly (normal work places or public pools etc.). Disk I/O on the server should not be the problem if you have enough RAM to buffer the working set of files that are accessed during operation. 1-2 Gigabyte should be sufficient. Network I/O will be more probably the limiting factor in a classroom scenario. I would use a Gigabit uplink for the server. -- Bye, Tobias Abt levigo systems gmbh ----------- ein unternehmen der levigo gruppe Max-Eyth-Strasse 30 Telefon: 07031 / 4161-10 D-71088 Holzgerlingen Telefax: 07031 / 4161-11 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Bausch http://systems.levigo.de/ Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 245 180 USt-ID: DE813226078 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.25/1957 - Release Date: 02/26/09 07:03:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
