what are you using for TC's

[Almquist Burke]

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I'm using some old Dell GX1 (PIII 450 Mhz with w/128MB).
It's only about a half dozen of them but they seem to be plenty  
speedy. I haven't tried local apps, but the run fine on LTSP5.

On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Barry Cisna wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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