On Saturday 07 June 2008 03:08:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to use LTSP for our Java development team. The primary > tools/software they use is Eclipse which requires an approx of 500 MB > memory to run smoothly. > > I have a few queries regarding the same: > 1. Is it a good idea to deploy thin-clients for such usage? > 2. Is it fine to run such memory hungry apps in an LTSP environment? > 3. If the above 2 are in the affirmative(yes), then what would be the > recommended server configuration for 8 such developers using > thin-clients based on LTSP? > > Any help, advise, criticism ;-) in this regard shall be highly appreciated.
The TCs are a mouse, keyboard and display on your server. So the app displayed on the client has nothing to do with the client, cause the app is running on the server EXCEPT some apps cache data (images) on the local X-server (your ThinClient) eg firefox (and need client memory for this) In terms of your team, much of java's bloat (sorry to the faithfull) is shared so you won't need 500M per TC user (on the server). I'd start with the usual 50 or 100 M / TC plus what the server needs then adjust ie say 10 Clients + 1G needed for the server = 2G. This unleashes the 1G limit of 32 bit OS's. You want to have a 64 bit OS for your server to handle the memory cleanly. The BigMem solutions have the worst impact with lots of users. With lots of shared memory it will be better than lots of different but be aware that 64 may be an issue. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
