On Fri, October 13, 2006 3:55 am, Debabrata Biswas wrote:
> What are the best way to improve video and animations
> in ltsp server for 10 clients? LTSP config twuiking in current LTSP 4.1 on
> RH9 at Pentium 3/1Ghz 512Mb Ram
> will do ? What are the best setup and there values?

RedHat 9 is very old, strongly recommend you upgrade to RedHat Enterprise
Linux 4 (educational licenses $50!) or CentOS if you can't afford that. 
This will help in both performance (2.6 kernel is very improved in
multimedia and desktop performance) as well as security.

> Or need to upgrade to AMD64 or P4 etc. before trying ?

How does video look when your logged in locally on the server?  Does it
run without being choppy?  Does it peg out the CPU or gobble up lots of
RAM?  If it does, than yes you're hardware needs updating, if not the
bottleneck may be your network.  I would consider a fast ethernet switch
the bare minimum for any type of LTSP animation (even something like Flash
animations), for real video, you'll likely need gigabit to get really good
performance on multiple clients.

Also, a true server with 64bit disk and network controllers will offer
better performance than trying to take a superfast new desktop system and
make it a server, invest in quality server hardware.  If you go with an
Opteron or Xeon server with 64bit support, make sure your video codecs
support 64bit linux.  As an example, there is no 64bit Macromedia Flash
player so even on x86_64, you have to run a 32bit browser in order to view
flash, there's also no 64bit java plugin.  Be sure to take this into
account before going 6bit, you might want to invest in a 64bit capable
system but remain with a 32bit OS for the time being (Opterons will still
run 32bit code extremely fast as will Xeons).

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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