On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Matthew Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> What would you estimate the cpu/memory requirements for 1000 desktop users? I have never measured. An important factor would be what's on the user side. When you have a proper X-server there then a lot is done on the workstation. But when you plan to do VNC then the X-server needs to hold the full bit image and do computations there. When we started 10 years ago with Linux on z/VM, running a graphical desktop was a pretty dumb idea on S/390. Hey, many told us that running Linux on the mainframe was a stupid idea as well... But I still have the pictures of Xnest in VNC. If one of our customers had serious ideas in this direction then I'd certainly be interested to help measuring things for such an estimate. My list of fun projects for my spare time is pretty heavy already. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/
