Re: [school-discuss] thin clients per server

[Edward Holcroft <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William

I don't have any experience with the Athlon 64, but I find a P4 3GHz  
starts to run out steam with 25 clients running everyday apps such as  
OpenOffice simultaneously. RAM is probably the key part of the  
equation - I use 2GB RAM on a P4 with 20 workstations. This seems to  
be a working well for me. This is with ordinary IDE drives - no  
problem there although I guess SCSI would improve things. My clients  
are P1's with 64MB or 32MB RAM.

ed
On 10 Jun 2005, at 6:49 PM, William Fragakis wrote:

> We are looking to replace a school lab full of standalone PCs (Dell  
> 1.6ghz Celerons) with LTSP. I'm wondering what a good client to  
> server ratio would be using something along the lines of a Athlon64  
> 3200 with a 10k SATA drive for the server. Mind you that we may  
> have all the kids hitting Flash driven web sites at the same time  
> and performance shouldn't look shabby compared to the stand alones.
>
> The lab is the first step to converting the rest of the school.
>
> Also, any perceptible difference in using, say 533mhz Via Eden  
> motherboards for the clients vs. 1 ghz Edens?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> William Fragakis
> Morris Brandon Elementary
> morrisbrandon.com