[K12OSN] Recommended Server for 25 terminals on K12LTSP 4

[Huck]

when 25 people log on and load open office all at once (tuxmath/type 
would be insanely slow cuz of network bandwidth)...
it tends to bog down the server...then once the programs are all up and 
running it flows smoothly...

Timothy Legge wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 17:45, Karolow, Mike [ITS] wrote:
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>>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...
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>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.  
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>Tim
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