Thanks, that is very useful.
Have you actually deployed any schools with 250-500 yet, Sridhar? David Leeming From: Tim McNamara [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 6:16 p.m. To: Sridhar Dhanapalan Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Latest on capacity of the school server On 6 July 2010 17:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: On 2 July 2010 03:45, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: > What experience do we have on the latest thinking about the capacity of a > single server? Here in Kosrae they have good 24/7 power availability and > air-conditioned offices in five of the schools. We can therefore specify > powerful machines, even dedicated server models if need be. If we segregate > off each of the 24 class groups, would a single powerful machine server be > able to handle 500 students in 24 classes (courses) simultaneously? (of > course in practice that maximum load will rarely occur). > 6) 250-500 XOs: 5-15 APs, XS with dual-core 2GHz+ CPU and 4GB RAM, gigabit network. Site issues will be the primary concern. We have reckoned for 30 active XOs per AP. Sridhar & others How do 7200rpm SATA hard drive speeds match up under this much simultaneous load? Tim
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