How are you working 'over the LAN'? X? vnc? If all the OOo instances are running on your server I'd say you are certainly low on memory -- I upgraded to 512Mb on my machine in order to get decent performance for *one* client! Assuming your clients are capable of running OOo reasonably, I'd expect your performance to be better if you use the server just to serve the files (it gets less involved in the per-click operation of the application that way). A per-client copy of OOo itself will help too. Bob G On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, fsanta wrote:

Ours works but it's slow especially when starting a lesson. AMD 1100 server with 20 PIV clients.

All SuSE 8.2 AMD 1100 server with 786Mb 40Gb eide. Pressure to go back to samba :-( Steve.

On Thursday 09 October 2003 13:33, fsanta wrote:

On Thursday 09 October 2003 10:54, you wrote:

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How are you working 'over the LAN'? X? vnc?

NFS via NIS with autofs. The OOo is local on the clients with a central fileserver. OOo-1.1.0 Steve.

Looks to me like the eide hard disk could be the bootleneck for NFS. Much better with a scsi disk and a 64bit scsi card if you can get it. regards garry

On Thursday 09 October 2003 18:48, ian wrote:

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:40, garry saddington wrote:

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On Thursday 09 October 2003 13:33, fsanta wrote:

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On Thursday 09 October 2003 10:54, you wrote:

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How are you working 'over the LAN'? X? vnc?

NFS via NIS with autofs. The OOo is local on the clients with a central fileserver. OOo-1.1.0 Steve.

Looks to me like the eide hard disk could be the bootleneck for NFS. Much better with a scsi disk and a 64bit scsi card if you can get it. regards

If you have plenty of RAM, its not that likely to be disc access since everything will get cached and come out of RAM won't it? Ok it will speed up the initial cacheing but after that?

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Maybe it could as we are also serving the user kde files from the same server. Anyone with a similar setup? On a school budget? Cheers, Steve.

--- fsanta wrote: > Ours works but it's slow especially when starting a

lesson. AMD 1100 server with 20 PIV clients.

All SuSE 8.2 AMD 1100 server with 786Mb 40Gb eide. Pressure to go back to samba :-( Steve.

Get more RAM! We did some calculations (ok estimates) earlier this year... these figures are from memory, so please correct me if I'm wildly wrong. This is for LTSP : With Oo the memory required for the first instance is several hundred meg, say 500MB and the processing overhead similar say 400MHz... The load for each additional X client session is around 40MB and about 50MHz. When we did the sums I noticed that the figures came out to be about 1MB:1MHz, for them both being bottlenecked at the same time. ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pigs. Robert Kiyosaki ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:37:54PM +0100, Richard Rothwell wrote:

--- fsanta wrote: > Ours works but it's slow especially when starting a

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lesson. AMD 1100 server with 20 PIV clients.

All SuSE 8.2 AMD 1100 server with 786Mb 40Gb eide. Pressure to go back to samba :-( Steve.

Get more RAM! We did some calculations (ok estimates) earlier this year... these figures are from memory, so please correct me if I'm wildly wrong.

This is for LTSP :

One thing to remember is that with a thin client application server you need to have sufficent physical RAM. Attempting to use swap space is likely to cause thrashing... -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763