On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:10 +0200, kjetil knudsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Asmo Koskinen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kjetil knudsen kirjoitti: > > > We have also the exact same experience. We are a big school > with over > > > 400 clients and 9 servers that run Ubuntu Hardy. [>8] I > really like > > Ubuntu, but we have to have a system that really works and > that you can > > trust beeing used by hundreds of pupils. K12LTSP did > this.... > > > This proves anything... We used to have Ubuntu 6.06+LTSP4.2, > now we have > Ubuntu 8.04.1+LTSP5. > > 2 servers, both have 2 x Dual Core Xeon and 6G memory. LAN is > fast. We > have 113 thin clients, HP t5125/5135. > > Here is video about one classroom (12 thin clients) on the > other day. > First some 2D games, then Gimp and then Flash games on the > Internet. > > I am very pleased that you are satisfied because Ubuntu Hardy seems > like at very god distro with all its eye-candy etc. I see that you are > using true thin clients that works well. We have a lot of > compaq-desktops that we use as thin-clients. They all have 128-512 MB > ram. As i mentioned earlier it seems that there is a problem when the > clients are "talking" to the fileserver when the pupils logs on that > are generating a huge amount of stress on the fileserver that makes > everybody and everything stall. 5-15 pupils are in a way acceptable. > But when 20-30 pupils logs on, the fileserver is paralysed. (And > again. Our fileserver is overkill). To me it seems like perhaps it is > the clients that make some kind of wild NFS traffic towards the > fileserver when they log on. And when none of these problems occured > with K12LTSP with the same clients and servers I naturally believe > that there is something strange in Hardy and LTSP5 > > Kjetil Knudsen > Grødem skole, Norway > >
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