Anthony, You aren't the only one running into this issue. That's why we spent so much time on the performance specs at the last Ubuntu developer summit.
I'm confident that the 7.10 (gutsy) release of Ubuntu will take care of an awful lot of the performance issues. There's great work being done every day on this, and so far, I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing. Until then, though, you might consider running both LTSP-5.0 and LTSP-4.2 on the same server. They'll both happily live together. You just need to point your HP clients at the LTSP-4.2 stuff (kernel,rootpath). The other clients sound like they're working ok with 5.0. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > Initially, at my company, we were working with Debian Etch and LTSP 4.2. > We purchased some thin clients, HP T5125s, and they worked out great. > Performance of the client and boot sequence were extremely fast! > > We decided to move to Ubuntu and LTSP 5 because the desktop environment > is better suited for us and LTSP 5 was the new thing. The install, > local device support, and hardware detection is superb, but the > requirements of the thin client are much greater. The thin client's > specs include 400Mhz Via Eden processor, 128MB RAM, and a Via S3 > graphics card, but clients seem to run noticeably slower, especially > with re-draw of windows and graphics. This only happens with the HP > thin clients and not low-end PCs booted as thin clients. (Personally, I > would have preferred just converting old PC's to ltsp clients, but my > boss loves the space saving and quiet features of the thin clients). > > Right now, I've got the clients setup to use XDMCP instead of LDM and > that has definitely boosted performance at the expense of local device > support and sound, but my question is, should I ditch LTSP 5 and switch > to LTSP 4.2 for better performance with the HP thin clients or should I > stick with LTSP 5 in hopes that Ubuntu 7.10's LTSP will have enough > upgrades to boost performance similar to the LTSP 4.2 days with my HP > thin clients? Any other similar thoughts or experiences? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
