You need more ram - try doubling it. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:02, Tim Frichtel wrote: > We've set up a small group of PCs acting as Internet > kiosks. With 4 or less machines, it works great. > After the 5th PC connects, the performance for the > users starts to degrade - browsing seems slower and > window movement becomes less smooth. With more than 6 > clients active, the screens become noticeably jerky. > Previously these PCs were running Windows 2000, and > browsed the internet smoothly on a 10M hub. > > Here's the setup: > > Server - > Dell: 1.1Ghz Celeron, IDE ATA-100 drive, 512MB ram > Red Hat 9 > LTSP 3.0.9 > running KDE customized for autologin and a minimal > desktop with the only application being > MozillaFirebird .61 There are no other applications > running on the server, and only MozillaFirebird is > offered on the client. > > Clients: > HP Brios, Celeron 500, 64 MB RAM, Intel i810 video > > Network: > Dell 10/100 switch. It appears the server and clients > are all connecting at 100. The upstream connection to > the internet is 10 MB to router. > > We've run the system monitoring utility on the server, > it doesn't look like the CPU, memory or drive is maxed > out, and there doesn't appear to be much swapping. > I'm not too savvy on linux performance monitoring > though... > > Any general thoughts on what to look at short of a > faster server? I'd like to get to 8 clients with the > existing hardware if possible. Is there some basic > tuning/setup step I've missed? Is 4-5 clients all I > should expect from a Celeron server? > > Thanks > > Tim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo > The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise > Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room > http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.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
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.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
