what are you using for TC's

[Barry Cisna]

Hello All,

Just curious as to what some of you are using for TC's these days with
ltsp5x? I am in the process of setting up my first f10-k12linux server
(for my home use). We are using Centos5 still at school ,as well as what
I am running at home for the tribe to thrash on,,:) I am about a year or
more behind on doing this I know,but I am finding the ltsp5.x is going
to render my poor little Ebox2300 useless. I have read on the k12linux
wiki were most of the HPtx series are mostly done,as well. 
I have been doing some research into this and found that(with the same
hardware), when booting a client,I do a network restart on the server
before ,to clear the nics rx/tx figures,, that with ltsp4.x eth0 TX's
about 65MB of data. On the ltsp5.x server the eth0/ltspbr0 TX's over
360MB's of data. This is just to get the client to a logged in desktop.
My Ebox takes about 45-60 secs to get to a login with ltsp4.x and with
ltsp5.x it takes about 3-4 mins. I did switch out the switch in between
my server and the TC (upstairs/downstairs setup), to a gig switch
thinking this may help a tiny bit even with the TC nic being a 100mb. It
made no difference.
 Whats odd is I can have both severs running side by side,,have the Ebox
boot from the Centos5 server then nx-client to the f10 server and web
browsing is as fast as if you were on a latest greatest machine of any
configuration. Of course this isn't practical but just saying.
Anyway just posting some of what I have found in the last few days
trialing f10 k12linux,,:)
Sorry for the long post!

Take Care,
Barry Cisna