Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-03 Thread Joe Baker
nigel barker wrote: Thanks for the suggestions guys I don;t get how to have a server just for open office. How do you do that? Your menu link contains something like: ssh -X officeserver.mydomain.com /usr/bin/ooffice Use NFS to export the home directories from your main file serve

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-03 Thread Peter Billson
1) I don't know if this applies to the Celeron processors but I have had bad experiences running LTSP on single processor servers running the 2.6.x kernel. That's running 2.6.x on the server, not the client. An instance of a Java game or two will bring the server to its knees. The same serv

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread nigel barker
Thanks for the suggestions guys This system is fine up to about 8 clients. hdparm gives this with 6 clients happily using open office and firefox. They are saving files onto a separate server via NFS. Timing buffer-cache reads: 852 MB in 2.01 seconds = 423.31 MB/sec Timing buffered disk rea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Todd Relyea
Depending on the workload, lots of different things in a system can become a bottle-neck, but in this case I think there is no question that you're using an under-powered CPU. >From the Intel web site for the Celeron: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/celeron/index.htm Recommended Applicat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Sudev Barar
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:45 +0900, nigel barker wrote: > I was under the impression that RAM is everything in the server, so I > built one with a 2G celeron and 2G of RAM. > > However the CPU regularly runs at 100% with only 10-15 clients, and there > are unacceptable delays for those clients. The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Baker
nigel barker wrote: Hi folks I was under the impression that RAM is everything in the server, so I built one with a 2G celeron and 2G of RAM. However the CPU regularly runs at 100% with only 10-15 clients, and there are unacceptable delays for those clients. The RAM usage has never even re

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Baker
I'm trying this message again, making sure it is in plain text. nigel barker wrote: Hi folks I was under the impression that RAM is everything in the server, so I built one with a 2G celeron and 2G of RAM. However the CPU regularly runs at 100% with only 10-15 clients, and there are unacceptab

[Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread nigel barker
Hi folks I was under the impression that RAM is everything in the server, so I built one with a 2G celeron and 2G of RAM. However the CPU regularly runs at 100% with only 10-15 clients, and there are unacceptable delays for those clients. The RAM usage has never even reached 1G and swap is of cou