Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-09-22 Thread David Johnston
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:31, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC drives are > > >manditory for a large number of concurrent users. The faster the better. > > > > Can anyone else comment on t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-23 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC drives are > > > >manditory for a large number of concurrent users. The faster the better. > > > Can anyone else comment on the disk requirements ? > > > What, exactly, is so great

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-22 Thread Ashvin Gami
visit http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~lcc/presentaions/nilesh/pics/page_01.htm for all u want to know bye i hope it will help u ashvin > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hi >> >>> > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC >>> drives are >>> > >manditory for a l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Harrison
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi > >> > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC drives are >> > >manditory for a large number of concurrent users. The faster the better. >> > >> > Can anyone else comment on the disk requirements ? >> > >> > Does more RAM

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-21 Thread jam
Hi > > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC drives are > > >manditory for a large number of concurrent users. The faster the better. > > > > Can anyone else comment on the disk requirements ? > > > > Does more RAM help ? > > > > What, exactly, is so great about SCSI

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-20 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Timothy Frye wrote: > What exactly do you mean by "as long as you divvy up your network for > bandwidth"? Around here, I have no control over that (i.e. - I can't muck > with routers/switches, nor can I control the network topography), so I'm not > sure how I would do that. I

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-20 Thread Timothy Frye
> -Original Message- > From: Julius Szelagiewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:56 PM > Cc: LTSP List > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity [snip] > as long as you divvy up you network for bandwidth, you can just keep adding

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-20 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andy Rabagliati wrote: > > * IDE drives die around 10 concurrent users. Fast SCSI or FC drives are > >manditory for a large number of concurrent users. The faster the better. > > Can anyone else comment on the disk requirements ? > > Does more RAM help ? > > What, exactly,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-20 Thread Andy Rabagliati
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Eric Harrison wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jason Greene wrote: > > I work with schools, which can be a "worst case" in terms of both apps and > usage patterns. > > We have many labs that have 40+ terminals where everyone logs in at the > same time, everyone runs the same a

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-19 Thread Eric Harrison
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: >On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Timothy Frye wrote: >> Has anyone gotten better performance or got around a performance issue by >> using openmosix with a few other servers or perhaps on all of the clients? >> Just a thought I had and wondered if anyone else h

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-19 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Timothy Frye wrote: > Has anyone gotten better performance or got around a performance issue by > using openmosix with a few other servers or perhaps on all of the clients? > Just a thought I had and wondered if anyone else had done that. > Tim, funny you should mention

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-19 Thread Timothy Frye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity > > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jason Greene wrote: > > >We are evaluating Linux in the Company I work for. We have over 60k > >desktops

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-19 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jason Greene wrote: > Well, they will use it as much as any average user... > I'm just talking about and average user... > Doc, spreadsheets, mail, browser, etc... > Jason, this is very similar to the usage I have - all yours + a terminal window. The biggest bottleneck

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread Eric Harrison
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jason Greene wrote: >We are evaluating Linux in the Company I work for. We have over 60k desktops. > >I'm on the evaluation team and I'm really pushing the LTSP idea for call >centers and the like. > >What I'd like to ask the LTSP team and all it s users is "What is the >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:47:51PM -0500, Jason Greene wrote: > We are evaluating Linux in the Company I work for. We have over 60k desktops. > > I'm on the evaluation team and I'm really pushing the LTSP idea for call > centers and the like. > > What I'd like to ask the LTSP team and all it s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread Jason Greene
Well, they will use it as much as any average user... I'm just talking about and average user... Doc, spreadsheets, mail, browser, etc... On Monday 18 August 2003 13:22, Peter Billson wrote: > Jason, > You left out the most important item: What will the users be doing? > Running Mozilla take

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread jam
Jason, Before we can talk about hardware, you really need to tell us more about the software. What applications will the "average" users be using ? Will they settle for a lightweight window manager like Icewm ? One thing I can tell you is that we deployed a server that now has 140 thin clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread Peter Billson
Jason, You left out the most important item: What will the users be doing? Running Mozilla takes a lot more "oomph" then a term window! :-) Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Jason Greene wrote: > > We are evaluating Lin

[Ltsp-discuss] server/user capacity

2003-08-18 Thread Jason Greene
We are evaluating Linux in the Company I work for. We have over 60k desktops. I'm on the evaluation team and I'm really pushing the LTSP idea for call centers and the like. What I'd like to ask the LTSP team and all it s users is "What is the capicity of a server?" Meaning how many users can