Charles, That's a tough question to answer specifically, so I like to give an example of a system that I setup for a customer.
It's a Dual PIII-650 with 1gb of ram. They have 110 workstations connected. The backbone of the network is 100mbit, switched. About 70 of the users are 'enabled' to run StarOffice and Netscape. By enabled, I mean that they can run it, but rarely are there more than about 30 or 40 people running those apps concurrently. All of the users are running multiple xterms with telnet or tn5250 sessions going to other servers. 6 users are running a point of sale app written in python. The server is also running Samba, serving files to about 50 PCs. The machine runs great! Rarely does the load average go above 1.00 Your question about Staroffice and shared memory is a good question. StarOffice turns out to be an excellent example of how Unix/Linux share code segments. The first user to load StarOffice incurs the 20 second load time, but all of the other users see StarOffice pop up on the screen very quickly. Netscape isn't as good at that, probably due to the amount of memory needed for data. I hope that answers your question, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Dong wrote: >I know this is an extremely variable question, but I'm >wondering how scalable LTSP is. How many users can we >get on a P4-1Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 100Gb RAID? Topology >shouldn't be an issue - we have 100MB switched today >to the clients. > >Also, from a perf perspective, what are the things to >look out for? > >Finally, application instantiation. If User1 loads >soffice then User2 execs it, do 2 instances load in >memory or just one? > >Thx, > >Charles > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com > >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
