> If you want to use X-Windows GUI clients, you should be looking at least
> at Pentium/celeron/cyrix processors, with 32MB Ram and 100Mb NIC.
I don't agree:
my experience:
486 66MHz Clients are ok
10MBit switched Network is ok, if the server has 100MBit
16 MB RAM is enough for most applicati
> As far as reiserfs is concerned, there are major problems with NFS interactions and
>reiserfs
> filesystems on unpatched kernels less than (IIRC) 2.4.9. I think you can possibly
>get away
> with 2.4.5 if it's patched correctly. You will need to make sure your NFS/LTSP
>server is
> runnin
> I would imagine that you are having trouble with running out of memory and it's all
>the
> machine can do to keep running. X windows itself takes around 4-8MB of RAM to run.
> You will
> probably get it to work decently by upgrading the machine to 8MB of RAM, but you
>will still
> need to
> I'm getting incredibly slow performance on the clients, which, admittedly are rather
>puny - 486
> with 4MB RAM, rtl8139 10MB/s network card.
Your problem is undoubtably the RAM on the clients. I think that 16M would
really be the workable minimum and probably 32M to be realistic to run
the X
As far as reiserfs is concerned, there are major problems with NFS
interactions and reiserfs filesystems on unpatched kernels less than
(IIRC) 2.4.9. I think you can possibly get away with 2.4.5 if it's
patched correctly. You will need to make sure your NFS/LTSP server is
running a kernel th
I would imagine that you are having trouble with running out of memory
and it's all the machine can do to keep running. X windows itself takes
around 4-8MB of RAM to run. You will probably get it to work decently
by upgrading the machine to 8MB of RAM, but you will still need to
implement so
Hi gerry,
> Hi,
> I'm getting incredibly slow performance on the clients, which, admittedly
are rather puny - 486
> with 4MB RAM, rtl8139 10MB/s network card.
Your server sounds OK, but If your clients are 486 with 4Mb Ram and 10Mb
Nics, they will be ok for use as character terminals (telne
Well, is your network switched or just using an 10/100Mbps hub ?
as with the hub all your network will go down to 10Mbps to allow your
client to use it.
That may be the first point of slowdown.
I haven't tried yet with reiserfs, but I think it shouldn't be the
problem as it is mounted via NFS, if
Hi,
I'm getting incredibly slow performance on the clients, which, admittedly are rather
puny - 486
with 4MB RAM, rtl8139 10MB/s network card.
On the server I've got Mandrake 8.0, with reiserfs partitions, 256 MB RAM, 1.33 GHZ
Athlon
processor, 7200 RPM ATA-100 IDE drives, 3COM 905 network car
