[K12OSN] high-end desktop machine as a server?

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

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> This topic has been hit upon in some other threads, but I thought it was
> worthy of it's own.
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> Can anybody relate their experiences with using a newer desktop machine as
> their server?  For instance, something like a 2.4 GHz single processor
> with IDE hard drives.  How many clients can run on such a machine, using
> apps like OpenOffice, Mozilla, and possibly the GIMP?
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> The school in my town has a computer in each classroom that is for the
> teacher to use.  These are a year or two old.  I think it would be great
> to hook a bunch of thin clients to it so that the kids can get in on the
> action, but I'd like to know what to expect performance-wise before I
> approach the school about this.
>
Rob,
 I've used my laptop as an emergency server for 8 terminals. The speed was
just fine, the apps used were mostly xterm for connection to business
system, mozilla and 3 oo instances. the laptop is a sony z1wap, pentium m
1.8GHz, 1GB memory, 80GB drive, k12ltsp 4.1. you should have pretty good
results with any processor that does multithreading, so that yo can run
smp kernel. the real key is memory, the more, the better. julius

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