hi, during the talk at JNU last month, one issue that came up was the sizing model - how much resource you need to throw into the backend infrastructure to make the thin-client model work using NX/freenx.
I finally had the time to do some testing and it seems that a machine of the following spec, is 'enough' to run between 20 - 22 Desktop Clients. 2 AMD Opteron 252 8 Gigs of RAM 6 500GB sata-3 drives, ext3 ( on a 3ware 9560, in a raid-0+1 ) a DesktopClient was basically someone who was running all these at the same time: Firefox - 6 to 8 tabs open OO-Calc - 200 KB doc open a Couple of Terminal windows Thunderbird GAIM GIMP - with a 5 MB file open And the usual gnome panel stuff, like the weather applet, a couple of resource monitoring applets Depending on I/O requirements you can actually scale the same machine upto 40 odd users if they dont hit the drives that much. Hope this helps ( sorry, i didnt get the name of the person who was asking this question.. ) - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
