James Call wrote:
I agree with Dan Young.
Just for context, we were discussing server-sizing on the -users list. :-)
We have 25 clients running on a 3gig amd dual core. If you had the computers just sitting there and everyone is using some low profile program like gedit - no problemo. When you set everyone to open wikipedia and look at electric cars, then a few kids find a flash animation or something, the whole system crashes.
A common complaint with Flash, as I understand it. Maybe the Flashblock extension would help, requiring users to click on Flash content to activate it. At least it would suppress spurious advertisements.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
When you say "ok open oo writer" yes the server does cringe. If you get a few kids that let the screen saver run, that can make your server have heart failure.
Ha, yeah, I considered wrapping it in a shell script that would sleep a small random period of time before launching, a la Ethernet collision avoidance.
I am looking for some sort of a better server, or using some thick clients or booting from a cd or something to try and take the load off our server. We want to get about 20-30 more clients hooked up.
Consider load balancing across several servers that NFS mount a common /home.
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