On 27/03/07, Simon Schmidig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > We have an office with 7 workstations for architectes. We use : > * CAAD : Cycas: A very light program > * Render : Povray; Use a lot of RAM and CPU (1 or 2 times per > month) > * CAD : AutoCAD ; on vmware but in the future on a separate server > with rdesktop client access > * GIS : Grass, QuantumGIS and Jump : Use a lot of RAM (for ex. a > big map / A0 ~ 800 MB or more), (every day) > * LAN : GIGABIT > Is it a good idea to switch to a LTSP-server? I think the success of the > project is in the power of the server. But what is the minimum needed > for the server and the thin-clients?
Simon, If you can run it on server you can run it on thin client is generally my dictum. However the high CPU usage here would mean that per server you should not expect to attach a large number of terminals. Also keep higher end display cards on the terminals. My suggestions would be install Linux on your server and load LTSP. Try expanding your thin clients slowly and monitor server by using top / free / iptraf etc to see where bottle neck may occur. It would be interesting to see follow up report once you have implemented this. And thanks for making me aware of CYCAS, many people ask me about good/high end CAD software and now I can point them towards possible solution. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
