On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:31:05PM +0300, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Hello Ceri,
> 
> Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:42:25 AM, you wrote:
> 
> CD> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:09:44PM +0500, Kamran Yaqoob wrote:
> >> Hello
> >> I am working on sun ray, please provide me some important information. i
> >> want to know that if i have x4100 server, then how many client connect at a
> >> time with sun ray server which is installed on x4100 server and having
> >> solaris 10 update 5. Thanks in advanced.
> >> And how many resources from server (hardware like memory, storage,
> >> bandwidth
> >> eg ) uses per client?
> 
> CD> That really depends on what they're going to be doing.  See, for
> CD> example, http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/Sizing_Guide and
> CD> http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/Sizing.
> 
> CD> For my first application, I'm personally anticipating that I can squeeze
> CD> 100 users onto an x4150, since they'll just be running kiosked firefox
> CD> and are mostly idle.
>
> But even that can potentially lag on websites with flash
> animation, streamed videos, etc.

Agreed.  When I said "kiosked firefox" though, I meant "kiosked firefox"
in that they can only get to two sites, neither of which has any of the
above.  Idle sessions will restart after an hour as well to avoid memory
leaks.

> At least I've seen each firefox eat up a whole core in
> this sutuation, although the other sessions were quite
> responsive. We even did a test where all cores were
> formally saturated (by running 4 browsers), and "top"
> said the CPU is nearly 100% busy, but the from the user
> perspective, the system worked okay.
> 
> I don't think we tweaked "nice" priorities in the test.

Yes, I also intend to deploy FSS with each kiosk user in its own project.

Ceri
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