[K12OSN] Minimum Server Config
Mike Heins
k12osn at perusion.com
Mon Sep 19 19:26:06 UTC 2005
Quoting Henry Hartley (henryhartley at westat.com):
>
> I've been asked to design a small computer lab for a non-profit in St.
> Vincent. I'd like to deliver a reasonable LTSP lab but my budget is
> currently exactly zero. Getting donations of virtually any number of
> adequate thin client machines is not a problem. We'll probably end up
> soliciting funds for the server and I want to recommend as low-end a
> machine as I can get away with. I don't want to scare them away with a
> $3,000 price tag. We can always do more if we raise more but we need to
> start very small. I'm expecting to need to power only about 10
> workstations and I think we can live with the system being on the slow
> side, as long as it doesn't lock up for five or ten minutes at a time.
If 10 workstations is all you need, any server with 2mb ram will probably
do the trick.
>
> I understand that RAM is probably more important here than CPU speed.
> Is AMD going to save me anything over Intel? Assuming I cannot afford
> SCSI drives, would it make sense to get multiple IDE drives and do RAID
> in some form or just live with standard IDE drives? Would a fast PIII
> give me better cost/performance as compared to a P4? I appreciate any
> and all advice you can give. Anyone willing to spec out a machine in
> detail earns extra points.
>
I currently have an Athlon 2200+ with 3GB ram and an IDE disk which
does fine for 15 stations, groans at 22.
I just configured a brand new 3GHz HP a1113w desktop with 4GB RAM (3.2
G available), a 160G SATA hard drive, DVD and DVD writer, memory card reader,
and two ethernet ports for just under $1400. It should handle 25 stations
running OO 2.0 beta using ICEwm.
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Mike Heins
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