<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Robert Arkiletian wrote: <blockquote cite="mida18d8e260705241217t2a81ec75q11d4bd38785143eb@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">On 5/24/07, Robert Arkiletian <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:robark@gmail.com"><robark@gmail.com></a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On 5/23/07, Terrell Prude' Jr. <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com"><microman@cmosnetworks.com></a> wrote: > I've found that you only need 32MB DRAM on your clients. For several > years, up to and including today, I run Pentium-166 clients with 32MB > DRAM, and no, I don't have NFS swap turned on. Not once has a client > died on me...and I run a whole lot of Firefox sessions and other things, > simultaneously, on one client (OpenOffice.org, The GIMP, multiple > Konqueror sessions, GAIM, etc.). Remember, this stuff runs on the > server, not the client. Heck, I've run ancient Power Mac 5260 and Power > Mac 5500 clients with 32MB DRAM, and they work just fine. So you're > certainly safe with 64MB DRAM in your iPaqs > Curious Terrell, on your 32MB client: what color depth were you using? </blockquote> forgot to ask resolution. <blockquote type="cite">what kind of video card were you using? how much ram did the video card have? </blockquote> </blockquote> 1024x768x24bpp. My video board, a Matrox Millenium G400 with 16MB video RAM, allows this. Same for my boxes with ATI 3D Rage Pro video boards (8MB video RAM). I also successfully use S3 Trio64 boards with 2MB video RAM at 1024x768x16bpp. Most of my thin clients have 32MB main memory, and most are Pentium-166's, though a few do have 64MB. I've seen no difference. Now, what *does* make a difference in performance is the video board. Oh My God, does it make a difference! The client with the Millenium G400 can do anything--MPlayer video, TuxRacer, you name it without slowing down. The ATI 3D Rage Pro isn't quite fast enough to keep up with 640x480 MPlayer video (you need to use the -framedrop switch), though it'll do 320x240 just fine. The S3 Trio64 is--barely--good enough for TuxType, but forget about watching videos; that said, it's just fine for Mozilla/Firefox/OpenOffice.org-type stuff. I've done all this without ever--once--using NFSSwap, and except for the occasional hardware failure (e. g. DRAM or NIC goes bad), my clients don't crash. --TP <div class="moz-signature"> _______________________________ Do you GNU!? <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> </body> </html>