On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 07:58 -0400, Harry Sweet wrote: > Hi all; > > Going into the year, I hope to be able to solve workstation lagging problems > once and for all. I'm not sure where > the bottleneck is as no swapping happens, and network thruput looks ok. But > I often get lagging when a full class is on. > > 9.04 64 bit Ubuntu > > Server = intel quad core, 8 gig ram, SATA drive, server box has a gigibit > ethernet but the switch is 100. > It also runs the classes web server, very lightly used and along with that > Mysql, again not very busy and not used at > all in most classes. > > 20 Workstations are all 10 year old Ibm's, 256k ram. > > Which of these things would likely improve performance the most? > > 1. Reinstall the server version of Ubuntu > 2. Lose the GUI on the server or at least drop Gnome for something faster > 3. Run Firefox as a local app > 4. Get a gigabit switch to replace our 10 year old 100meg switch. > 5. Raid or SCSI disks > 6.. Something I haven't thought of ..... Optimize Firefox performance: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Firefox3Optimize
> > > thanks > > Harry Sweet > Goshen High School > Goshen, NY > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
