On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:38:34 +0800, "Joey ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have 100 ltsp terminals on mdk 9.0. > > 2GB RAM > 1 x intel xeon 3.0Ghz cool. what are those terminals doing? when i talked to ian sison and some others about this, the recommendation seems to have been 10 stations per server if the users are doing a lot of different things (e.g., openoffice, surfing the net, etc). 20 stations if they're doing something restricted and relatively light (e.g., they're all doing some sort of data entry and the client is light). i'd also say, stay away from KDE. not sure if you should stay away from gnome, you probably do, but definitely stay away from KDE. at our office, when someone logs in and starts KDE, you can see the server drive light go on and stay on for a while, and everyone else notices a slowdown. there's also something to do with KDE sound that doesn't work right (for us, anyway, might be a solved issue elsewhere, or not an issue if you're not trying to do network transparent sound, i.e., the sound comes out of the speakers on the client) and i have to kill the job for the other users, otherwise it pegs the CPU usage at 100%. as someone else pointed out in this thread, icewm is a good choice. heh, even on a single user, pretty powerful box i can't stand KDE and i use icewm. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
