I can assure you that my 16 terminals run fine: 486DX4/100 with 16-24 Mb RAM and 1-2Mb of video RAM. My students use them daily, but then again we're satisfied with 800x600/16bit, IceWM, nEdit, g++, opera and a number of other tools with a small footprint.
CU On 06-Feb-03 Cameron Lerch wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:58:27PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> A terminal, like any PC, has at least two kinds of RAM: internal >> memory and video memory. They each serve different purposes. >> >> If a terminal solely acts as a terminal then it only needs an >> amount >> of internal memory that accomodates for the kernel and a RAM disk. >> Usually 16-24 Mb will suffice. Please remember that all >> applications >> run on the server. >> >> If you want or need high resolutions with lots of colors on such a >> terminal then you have to add more memory to the video card. That >> kind of RAM is solely used to store video output. >> >> On the other hand, if (and *only* if !) you decide to run so >> called >> *local* applications then you will need lots of internal memory in >> your terminal. That's because a *local* application is transferred >> over to the terminal and executed there. >> >> IMHO that kinda sums it up. > > I must be missing the place where you account for the RAM X > requires > (and I'm not talking about just the fb like you suggest). > > Please remember that X runs on the terminal. > > Besides, I have presented proof of memory usage, not some false > assumption like you have done. > >> On 05-Feb-03 Cameron Lerch wrote: >> > I would suggest more RAM. This completely depends on what you're >> > doing, >> > but for comparison purposes: I use P133 machines with 48MB ram >> > and >> > an >> > 8mb PCI video card. I run them at 1024x768/16 bit in a Gnome 1 >> > environment. I have s/w glx enabled, and use TTFs which are >> > provided >> > through XFS running on the server. I use gimp, StarOffice, >> > mplayer, >> > etc. I have found that memory gets low very often, and have >> > since >> > had >> > to create some swap to solve lockup problems (NFS swap is slow, >> > so >> > it >> > should be avoided). On one of the machines, I ended up taking >> > out >> > the >> > 48MB and put 80MB in instead, and it now appears to be running >> > much >> > better. >> > >> > X4 uses a lot of memory (especially if you're running at a >> > decent >> > resolution with glx, ttf, etc). I would say that most >> > workstation >> > memory estimates I've seen are a little low for a full blown >> > desktop. -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 07-Feb-03 00:19:48 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.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.freenode.net
