hi list! to tiger:
at my former job, i was able to install 26 terminals, all PIIs, using an AMD Athlon 2GHz server with 1GB RAM. my students were using them for surfing the internet (with several browsers open at the same time), development with C and PHP with MySQL access... i believe i can get the number up to 40 if only i have more PCs at the time, and the server can still handle all of them wonderfully... oh, and they were using icewm... On Apr 8, 2005 11:39 AM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > plug@lists.q-linux.com (#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 > -- Chris G Haravata Independent Consultant Tel No +63 2 6348070 Cel No +63 927 9350164 http://blog.haravata.net -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#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
