[ok-mail] [K12OSN] Thin Client

[John Hansknecht]

On Monday 11 July 2005 13:40, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > Our school (University of Detroit Jesuit High School &
> > Academy) started last
> > year with 942 students grades 7-12. We ran two computer labs
> > (32 each), our
> > library (36), our art room (6) and our learning center (4)
> > for a total of 110
> > working linux terminal clients. All of our computer courses
> > were taught on
> > the linux terminals.
>
> Might I ask what you are using as a server to power 110 thin clients?
> How many concurrent connections to you believe you average?

This year we used two dual Xeon processor servers with 2GB of ram. The load 
was split by hard coded MAC address. The servers during a normal day 
regularly saw 36-38 clients and occasionally peaked in the low 40's. I would 
call performance OK. 

John Hansknecht