On Friday 19 August 2005 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
This is a false assumption! I can show you a site that will crash ltsp + firefox with 256M ram on client, reliably, repeatably, and at the same point every time. Everything depends on the site you go to. IMHO 256M for each client is cheap and adequate (usually won't crash). Else use swap. James ------------------------------------------------------- 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
