Tom/Asmo, please note that to get your full 8GB RAM in an i386 installation, you need to install the server kernel on the LTSP server (which enables PAE by default and gets past the 3GB RAM limitation).
'sudo apt-get install linux-image-server' Cheers, Jordan/Lns Asmo Koskinen wrote: > Tom Atkins kirjoitti: > > >> Should I install 64bit edubuntu and then build 32bit client images? Will >> this make full use of 8gb RAM? >> > > You can use 32-bit server if you like or 64-bit server if you like, > Linux kernel can handle everything in both architectures. > > Friend of mine use 8 cores with 32G mem. Linux i386 kernel. No problems. > Here right after installation: > > http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5/htop_8_32.jpg > > - Ubuntu Alternate 8.04 i386 > > - Dell PowerEdge 2900 III server > - 2 x 4 Core 2,33 GHz intel Xeon > - MEM 32G > - 2 x 160G/hardware-RAID > > I use 6G mem with 2 x 2 Core Xeon/Ubuntu 8.04 i386, I have two servers > in same network/setup: > > http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5-Mantykangas/htop-master.png > http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5-Mantykangas/htop-slave.png > > So how much mem or how many cores is not a issue here, both i386 and > AMD64 LTSP servers can handle everything. > > Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. > > -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blog.logicalnetworking.net My little introduction into the Linux filesystem Network Bonding in Linux LNS and Linux thin clients gaining momentum on the net -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
