On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:37, Richard Rothwell wrote:
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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,
1 gig? That seems about right. We did some tests with 1 gig P3s and 512
meg and RAM was definitely the limiting factor. When 1 Gig memory sticks
come down to the cost of two 512 meg sticks its going to be fairly
inexpensive (relatively) to put 2 or more gig in and even with 2.4 gig
processors and 1.5 gig you can run 20 clients depending on exactly what
you are doing.
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ian