On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:00 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > The number of clients is not only determined by memory but also by > Ddisk IO / Network / backbone / CPU and applications. IMHO per server > you can look at 30~40 clients if you have fast scsi hard disks. Some > slow down is likely when all the class fires up clients > simultaneously.
I think a server can easily handle 100+ thin clients, if it's built right. For example, 15K RPM SCSI drives in a RAID 1+0 config, gigabit uplink, and between 5.5 GB to 8 GB of RAM, should perform rather well. The most likely key is keeping all user data on an equally fast, but separate box, and perhaps moving more demanding apps to their own dedicated servers. In a typical school setting, I don't see why one properly spec'd box wouldn't be sufficient to power two 30 desktop classrooms. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 i686 GNU/Linux 01:05:14 up 2 days, 11 min, 4 users, load average: 1.42, 0.68, 0.46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
