[K12OSN] Server/Client Performance

[Rob Owens]

I agree that it's probably worth your while to buy a better machine.  A year or two back I built a computer for my sister for about $500 (built from parts from newegg.com) which is a P4 2.4 with 512MB DDR, 160GB hard drive, CD burner, Asus motherboard, optical mouse, decent video card, etc.  At home I run a 2.0 Celeron w/ 512 SDRAM and it works pretty well with two simultaneous logins running graphical applications.  Today you could get something better for even less money.  I bet $400 is all you'd have to spend.   

On the other hand, I have a P2 233MHz w/ 192MB RAM and it is damn slow running as a standalone system, particularly for applications like OpenOffice.  Booting takes a long time and loading programs takes a long time.

-Rob


 --- On Mon 11/29,  < ssanders at coin.org > wrote:
From:  [mailto: ssanders at coin.org]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:16:56 -0600
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Server/Client Performance

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:39, Henning Wangerin wrote:<br>> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:52, Mark Cockrell wrote:<br><br>> > I have a question regarding performance.  I've got a pretty low-end PC <br>> > here that I want to use as the server: a P-233 with 256MB RAM.  What <br>> > kind of performance can I expect for 2 clients connected to this machine <br>> > for use as a Web Browsing/Word Processing cluster?<br><br>i would respectfully disagree with some of the opinions here, only<br>because i have done exactly that with K12OSN from 2.x through 4.x. it<br>won't be optimum, but it certainly can be usable. i used a P2/233 as a<br>server for quite some time. it had 512 meg of ram, one IDE HD, and all<br>100mbit connections. it later used gigabit to aggregate the clients'<br>bandwidth, but three clients (P166, P200 and a P100) could use it at the<br>same time. after i went to gigabit locally, two of the clients could<br>also stream .MP3's from the server (added a separate HD for the !
MP3's to<br>live on) to their soundcard using Madman/XMMS at the same time with few <br>dropouts.<br><br>i ran it initially with 256 meg of ram, and it would not handle two<br>clients very well. of course, multiple instances of KDE and OpenOffice<br>are not a good idea, choose lighter wm and apps. as others have<br>mentioned, are there any chances for more clients later? rather than buy<br>ram for an old machine that you will outgrow quickly, you may be better<br>off trying to start with a faster machine. if you are all 100mbit, you<br>can make what you have now work with only 256meg of additional ram. but?<br>go ahead and try it as is. the experience you get will be valuable, and<br>it may be usable for casual web/email/docs.<br>Attachment: signature.asc  (0.19KB)<br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>

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