[K12OSN] Recommended Server for 25 terminals on K12LTSP 4

Timothy Legge tlegge at rogers.com
Thu Oct 28 00:07:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 17:45, Karolow, Mike [ITS] wrote:
> If it's the type of situation where all 25 machines are going to log on
> at once, like in a lab where all the students sit down and fire up the
> machines together, I think there would be some *serious* lag there. Once
> everyone's going, then you'd be fine. I'm running just a few machines
> from a P-III 700 and load times are rough, so with 25 even on a faster
> processor...

Do you mean the time required to download the kernel?  If so, there are
some things like multicast that can improve that.  It is a little more
complicated so I would suggest it only if you are ready to experiment a
little.  

Tim






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