What type of development are these users going to be doing? Are they web developers? Are they using the environment for educational purposes? Are they working on fat client code (Swing/SWT)? We had been considering this type of environment, but haven't gotten around to it. One of the things that will be a challenge for us is that everyone will need their own Tomcat servers running, and presumably on the same ports. We'll be investigating multi-homing the network interfaces to assign multiple IPs to it, but could potentially dynamically fire up the servers on other ports. We were only considering having 5-10 developers on one box because of the complications of the servers and networking, but it would seem the more developers you get on the box, the more likely there are going to be multiple people attempting to compile or run costly tests at the same time.
Eclipse is definitely a memory hog as well. I don't know if it's relevant, but Ganymeade (Eclipse 3.4 J2ee install) on my Windows PC is currently taking up 384 MB of RAM. Not sure what developer wouldn't need several tabs open of Firefox as well (currently 128 MB - You know, JavaDocs, Google, etc), and various other apps that would easily need 512 MB per developer (total including Eclipse). This is also assuming you're using a very light weight window manager such as IceWM. KDE and Gnome will balloon your per developer memory costs even higher. If you were using a very small set of plugins for Eclipse, you may be able to drive down memory costs, but that goes back to the questions about what types of development you're doing. Jeremy D. Young Systems Analyst O'Reilly Auto Parts (417) 862-2674 x1858 Ashish Nabira <[email protected]> wrote on 01/27/2009 02:31:35 AM: > Hello Friends; > > Does anybody deployed Eclipse IDE on LTSP and running it > sucessfully. Eclipse needs lot of memory .Making it available to > every developer on thinclient may need huge RAM. > > Can we give eclipse to say 50 Deveopers on LTSP and still keep > memory requirements low. It there any special way to make this > deployment low on memory? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ 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
