Hi all LTSPians,
We are in the verge of expansion of our office and we have decided
to have LTSP architecture for the same .
We will be having round about 40 Thin Clients Running simultaneously
in full graphical mode .
we want to have KDE , Openoffice , Mozilla or
any othe browser , etc . running on all the 40 clients
We need to finalize on the Server Configuration which will remain
stable for the above given case .
We only want to have
not more than a single server with ( WE DONT WANT
TO HAVE TWO SERVERS )
dual processor and
upto 2.5 GB of ram (ram can be upgraded ) .
SCSI Drives or (any thing better than that as you say)
BUT we are only stucked into the processor configuration
I am having following questions in my mind .
1) can we run all intel based applications on the AMD
Processor
(like sybase for i386 processor and so on )
2) can a 32 bit application run on a 64 bit Processor
3) IS Red HAT 7.3 capable of detecting a dual
processor , and will it support two 64 bit processor's.
2.5 GB of RAM may not be enough for office role (eg: open office, evolution
+ spamassassin / thunderbird, and firefox are quite a memory hog)
For 40 clients and office uses, I'll allocate 128MB RAM for each client,
plus server overhead; so that'll be about 6 GB. Get a server that will be
upgradeable to 8 GB or more, to enable you to expand in the future.
Opterons now have dual-core, but I've had bad experience with AMD, where if
the cooling fails, the processor will fry in an instant (hope they've fixed
it now). Whereas Intel processor will gracefully slow itself down, thereby
giving you chance to fix the problem. Dual Pentium 4 HT processors
shouldn't be too expensive, while giving you effectively 4 processors.
With VMware, you can even dedicate certain processor(s) to each virtual
machine, so you can have multiple servers with only one physical server.
btw - why RH 7.3 ? I think with this configuration (6 GB RAM, 4 processors,
etc), it'll not be able to recognize it. Personally I'll go with RedHat
Enterprise, or CentOS; they should be able to recognize this hardware
configuration and fully utilize it.
Hope it helps.
regards,
Harry
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