[K12OSN] Slow speed

[Dennis Daniels]

On the cheap:
*Limit usage of OpenOffice as much as possible
*use firefox instead of mozilla
*reduce usage of heavy graphical apps like Tuxtype (though a nice app, 
it slows down the network)

For $
*more RAM
*320 SCSI drives

Alternatives
*set up second ltsp server / share the served IP addresses
**box 1 responds to 100-105
**box 2 resonds to 106-200 (or something like that)
*set /home to a single box and NFS all requests there

hth

denny


Bjørn Roger Rasmussen wrote:
> Hello people!
>  
> I run a K12LTSP 4.2.0 setup at one of the schools I have the computer 
> responsibility for. The server is an old PC with the following 
> configuration:
>  
> - Intel P 4 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB IDE harddisk WD with 8 MB cache. 
> 100 Mbit/s network.
>  
> The server shall serve about 10 – 15 thin client computers. The thin 
> client computers are old computers with specifications running from 
> Pentium 166 MHz with 64 MB RAM and better.
>  
> Before I began to run K12LTSP I used Skolelinux 
> (http://www.skolelinux.no/). The users at the school liked that 
> solution, but it was a night mare for me to maintain the network. I did 
> not get any complaint about the speed when I run Skolelinux.
>  
> Now with K12LTSP as system the people at the school are complaining 
> about the speed. High response time when they shall start or use 
> normally programs etc.
>  
> Where would you think is the biggest bottleneck in my setup? Should I 
> have had a better server? Which parts of the server has the most 
> importance for the speed at the thin clients?
> 
> Bjorn Roger Rasmussen
> EDP employee - local government of Eigersund, Norway.
> 
> ***
> Bjørn Roger Rasmussen (http://www.brr.no/)
> 
> 
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