[K12OSN] bottleneck question

[Richard K. Ingalls]

Liam Marshall wrote:
> It is the first day of school, so of course I have discovered a
> problem.  Running K12LTSP server and 31 thin clients.  All are able to
> connect, but after attempting to all surf with Mozilla at the same time
> it slowed down seriously
> 

do you have gigabit from the server to the switch?  that may help 
significantly.  i'd think that you'd want 3 or 4 GB of RAM also.

> ran top on server, which has hyperthreading single cpu 3.06 MHz and 2 GB
> RAM.  cpu usage total says 152% with roughly 70% on cpu01 and 80 % on
> cpu00
> 
> memory free down to 400 MB.
> 
> There is not much I can do immediately about the cpu.  I can increase
> the memory to 4GB if I new that would help
> 
> will it, or will the cpu usage still be really high, which according to
> top is the killer?
> 
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