On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:06 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: > I am planning a small (30 clients) LTSP deployment and have few > questions. > > > The clients are going to be used for a single function. They will run > FireFox and connect to single URL on our LAN. The URL will be different > for each client and Firefox will be configured to use the URL as its > default start page. The browser will never leave the default page and > the page uses javascript to automatically refresh the display and update > the content being displayed. I am planning to run FireFox fullscreen > (kiosk style) at 800x600 screen resolution. > > Given the above scenario how much RAM will I need in the server? Will > 2GB be enough? 4GB?
One client connections requires 12MB of RAM if I'm not mistaken. Plus firefox of a couple of MBs, you will still have plenty of free RAM. > Will there be any performance issues If I run Firefox from the server? > Or should I run it as a local app? I think Firefox is light enough to be run from server. > I am planning to run the LTSP server as virtual machine under VMWare > ESX. Has anyone done this? Are there any issues with doing it? This is where I think you'll have a performance issue. Running a production server on a VM is really not recommended. > All LTSP traffic will be carried on its own private LAN. The clients > will be connected to the server via 100MB switch. > > Initially, I am planning to use some Dell Optiplex GN and G1 desktops as > clients. They have anywhere from 32MB of RAM to 160MB. How much RAM > they should have to run Firefox with excellent performance? 32MB will be sufficient, since all the work is on the server. But more is better. CMIIW, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 08:42:29 up 34 min, Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
