[K12OSN] Server/Client Performance

[ssanders at coin.org]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:39, Henning Wangerin wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:52, Mark Cockrell wrote:

> > I have a question regarding performance.  I've got a pretty low-end PC 
> > here that I want to use as the server: a P-233 with 256MB RAM.  What 
> > kind of performance can I expect for 2 clients connected to this machine 
> > for use as a Web Browsing/Word Processing cluster?

i would respectfully disagree with some of the opinions here, only
because i have done exactly that with K12OSN from 2.x through 4.x. it
won't be optimum, but it certainly can be usable. i used a P2/233 as a
server for quite some time. it had 512 meg of ram, one IDE HD, and all
100mbit connections. it later used gigabit to aggregate the clients'
bandwidth, but three clients (P166, P200 and a P100) could use it at the
same time. after i went to gigabit locally, two of the clients could
also stream .MP3's from the server (added a separate HD for the MP3's to
live on) to their soundcard using Madman/XMMS at the same time with few 
dropouts.

i ran it initially with 256 meg of ram, and it would not handle two
clients very well. of course, multiple instances of KDE and OpenOffice
are not a good idea, choose lighter wm and apps. as others have
mentioned, are there any chances for more clients later? rather than buy
ram for an old machine that you will outgrow quickly, you may be better
off trying to start with a faster machine. if you are all 100mbit, you
can make what you have now work with only 256meg of additional ram. but?
go ahead and try it as is. the experience you get will be valuable, and
it may be usable for casual web/email/docs.
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