I am running about 60 terminals on a machine half that size, it also runs nfs for our shop floor brake presses and a postgres server that gets really hammered on.
KDE 2.1 I cannot say enough about ram, you need ram ram and more ram the processors rarely hit 30% utilization. Cliff > On Friday 17 January 2003 18:14, Werner Winter wrote: >> Hello, >> we set up a test terminal server and it worked well. So we want to buy >> a new server hardware (about 15 KDE-terminals). Is the following ok? >> >> Pentium4 2,4GHz (or is a dual pentium better?) >> 2GB RAM >> SCSI-HD 36GB >> >> Werner >> > > I don't know but I have a similar problem. just slightly larger scale, > > > I also need to run a big municipal database on one of my servers using > > postgres. > > I was thinking of > > 2 Servers, (Large Hard Disks) to store users files and database (they > hopfully won't have that many files) > > 1 Application server to run the apps on running LTSP (mounting the > users files over NFS) > > That way everything that needs regularly backing up is on one set of > servers and the application server can be a semi static image and if > its too slow we can add a second (nearly identical similar machine) > > I'm guessing this will work out that the Application server will need > lots of > memory, where as the file server will need lots of disk space. But only > needs to be powerful enough to do the database and file handerling leg > work. > > I don't know wether thats the right way to go. > > Is it worth trying to keep static apps aways from the applications on >separate servers with LTSP? > > Any Ideas? > > Peter Childs > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts > will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all > your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit > encryption. Get a guide > here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
