On Tuesday 27 January 2004 19:00, Rob Keeling wrote:
We are having some repeated problems with our LTSP installation.
We run a Suse 8.1 based server, running icewm, openoffice 1.0.2 and Galeon for a web browser. You should upgrade to SuSE 9 since just about everything is loads better than it was in 8.1.
The server spec is 1Gb ram, Athlon 1.6Ghz ide hard disk. I would expect this to start getting unpleasant at around 10 clients. Once the machine starts hitting swap heavily and grinding to a near halt, you'll get all sorts of unpredictable problems - many of them caused by impatient users clicking and clicking and clicking :) I think your options are to either add a second server, or get a much bigger and faster one. The first option will be loads cheaper. You can load balance in a rudimentary way by sticking mac addresses in the dhcp.conf files. http://theseus.sourceforge.net/projects/ets/overview.html has documentation on a more sophisticated load balancing setup.
Cheers -- Phil Driscoll