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<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Starting this on
a seperate thread, so as not to "hijack" or something.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">(this is my first
listserv experience, and quite helpful I might add)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">If those of you
who operate a k12ltsp environment in a school setting</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">could possibly
post real results of what you have in those working
environments</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">for those of us
trying to convince admins to make the switch.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">a question I'm
running into is:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">"You are trying
to tell me that 1 computer, "(they can't really differentiate between a server
and a workstation)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">"will be able to
run applications for this lab of 30 machines doing multimedia applications
"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">"like Cinelerra,
The Gimp, or Open Office and web browsing?"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">and all I can say
is "I think so, until I get the go ahead to TRY it and find
out"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">I guess what I
need is some tangible evidence.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Such as:
on server with 4gigs of ram running on scsi with a 800mhz fsb and a 3.0 GHz
cpu</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">my server is
handling 50 concurrent connections running various programs from TuxMath to The
Gimp</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">and everything in
between and is at 75% cpu load and 80% memory, and never using swap
space...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">and all clients
are running smooth and clean.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=250300418-09042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">--Huck
=)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>