I have been testing a small network of about 6 thin clients over the last few months. The server is a AMD K6 450 Mhz with 512 Mb ram, two 8 Gig IDE hard drives (Raid striped), kernel 2.4.17, Gnome 1.4 and a 100Mbit switched network.
I installed xosview after reading about it on this list a few days ago. As you would expect the CPU is the only limiting factor in this setup, I am sitting in front of two VIA-ITX thin clients one fanless, and the other one with the more powerful CPU. They are identical from a users point of view. xosview at the moment shows, LOAD 0.0 CPU 0% MEM 478M (USED+SHARED/BUFF/CACHE) SWAP 1.2M (UNUSED) PAGE 0 DISK 0 INTS (2 out 0f 24 used) If I load OpenOffice the CPU goes to 100% for the 35 seconds that it takes to load. The disk shows 116K or thereabouts 3 times momentarily (1/2 second each time) Mozilla is similar, 100% CPU for about 20 seconds load time (no disk activity) and 100% CPU when rendering a page. The time has come to build a Server with a much more powerful CPU perhaps even two CPU's. Is anyone using Dual CPU's, what mainboard are you using, CPU type, kernel etc. I know some people are using the 2.2 series Kernels as they know they are stable, but I have had no problems with 2.4.17 or 2.4.18. Is the 2.2 series any good for Dual CPU's? Are two CPU's twice as good as one or is it more like 160% or less What's the most powerful single CPU being used with the LTSP and what are the loads like loading the above applications. TIA ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.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
