Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server Benchmarks?

2014-02-05 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 02/05/2014 11:58 AM, Steffen Schaumburg wrote: > Since the i7 (almost certainly) cannot have ECC memory I'd certainly > think twice about using that for a server, or for anything else that's > important for that matter. Google published a study into memory > reliability and.. well, it's not pret

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server Benchmarks?

2014-02-05 Thread Steffen Schaumburg
On 05/02/14 02:03, Joseph Bishay wrote: >> IME the best thing you can do for an LTSP server is add RAM. You >> probably don't need it for applications but Linux will take whatever is >> unused and allocate it for cache and buffers, and that all turns into speed. > I've currently got a custom built

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server Benchmarks?

2014-02-05 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Joseph Bishay : > > I've currently got a custom built i7 tower with 12 GB of ram. The > other server is a HP Proliant with 4 GB but I can of course install > more. The issue is that hardware for the proliant is way more > expensive than the i7 so before I invest in it I wanted an idea i