On 9/29/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you can use your fat-client's speed and RAM if you turn on LOCAL_APPS in ltsp.conf for that workstation.
that's very LTSP. Yes you can boot of the network and run your apps locally or in the server. you just have to specify that in lts.conf (or ltsp.conf?). Also set NFS_SWAP, specially if you have clients with like 16mb of RAM.
btw, if you use LOCAL_APPS you have to uncomment some lines in /etc/exports (or export?).
other advantages of LTSP, you can remove all the harddisks of those fat clients, to save electricity. and those clients can really live with only 16mb ram.
put all your ram in your server.
try your best to disable gnome and kde, they will eat your server cpu. use IceWM instead.
LTSP will excempt you from 90% day-to-day problems associated with maintaining many locally-installed workstations. just imagine, what if you want to install this newsoftware.tar.gz thing? you don't need to compile it in your 20 computers....
what if you want to upgrade some software due to a vulnerability? in LTSP you just upgrade one computer...
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:56:30PM +0800, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote:
> Well, that's cool. :) Thought you were using your fat clients e. It
> defeats the purpose of "thin" client setups. ;)
Using a fat-client-able system as a thin client is definitely a waste.
you can use your fat-client's speed and RAM if you turn on LOCAL_APPS in ltsp.conf for that workstation.
Worse, it slows things down since you centralize the processing load and
introduce a network bottleneck. Some optimization could still be done
with fat-client-able systems, though, by doing away with the local hard
drives and using a central NFS-based root filesystem.
that's very LTSP. Yes you can boot of the network and run your apps locally or in the server. you just have to specify that in lts.conf (or ltsp.conf?). Also set NFS_SWAP, specially if you have clients with like 16mb of RAM.
btw, if you use LOCAL_APPS you have to uncomment some lines in /etc/exports (or export?).
other advantages of LTSP, you can remove all the harddisks of those fat clients, to save electricity. and those clients can really live with only 16mb ram.
put all your ram in your server.
try your best to disable gnome and kde, they will eat your server cpu. use IceWM instead.
LTSP will excempt you from 90% day-to-day problems associated with maintaining many locally-installed workstations. just imagine, what if you want to install this newsoftware.tar.gz thing? you don't need to compile it in your 20 computers....
what if you want to upgrade some software due to a vulnerability? in LTSP you just upgrade one computer...
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