On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some experience with LTSP and LTSP-like environments, so I can > shed some light to your doubts. > > Memory, as you may already know, is the cheapest and most substantial > upgrade you can make on your machine. The statement "the more the > better", in this case, is true. I would recommend you to get at least > 2 gigs; this amount would be enough for now, but if you want some > scalability, regarding number of users or even applications, why not > more? > > There is a friend of mine who uses to setup a swap partition on a > ramdisk, so he never uses the disk for memory management. This would > save a lot of processing and disk usage for you. When you have so much > users and start using swap, the performance gets worse very easily, > and this is a real problem, because so many users will keep the server > much busy all the time.
Surely having RAM is always better than swapping to ramdisk, ie you have RAM-ramdisk + ramdisk vs RAM Anybody? 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
