The question of "How many clients," "How much memory," "How big a server," etc. seems to be a reoccurring question on the list.
While those of us who have used LTSP have a good "feel" towards the answers and there are a few rules of thumb floating around there really are no "hard numbers" to answer these questions. It would be nice if an organization that is interested in selling hardware for LTSP, has a recognized reputation and has access to lots of hardware (<cough>HP</cough>) would set up a test and do a white paper on system requirements. Being able to say that "...according to these bench tests Z says if we buy server X and 50 clients we'll have no problem running Y..." would certainly make the job of "selling" LTSP in larger organizations easier then "...the guys on the LTSP list say..." :-) The paper could test a handful of server configurations (i.e. single/duel processor, various amount of memory, drive configurations, etc.) with various numbers of clients (i.e. 10/30/50/70/~) under various usage patterns (i.e. Office Suite, Web Browsing, Java apps, etc.) with different Window managers (Gnome, KDE, etc.) and benchmark system load, memory requirements, network utilization, response times, etc. I'd be glad to do the actual testing if someone wants to ship me the hardware. I'd even return it when I'm done! :-) Pete Billson -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ 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
