[K12OSN] Server sizing in the real world

Barry Solof barry at yellowdog.com
Wed Oct 12 19:30:12 UTC 2005


Hi,

The school has changed plans (again!).

We were going to start with an old server and a few K12ltsp terminals in 
a few classrooms to see how things worked out.  Now the school wants to 
use the K12ltsp for a dedicated computer classroom with about 20 
terminals.  My guess is they will want to run other terminals in other 
classrooms off of this server eventually.

They have found some money for a good server.   That makes it a lot 
easer cause the old server isn't really working well.

The hardware wiki talks about needing 250 meg for the server and 50 meg 
(or more) per terminal.  Is this really enough for Gnome/OpenOffice/Tux 
type/Tux math/etc.?  What sort of experiences have you had with the 
number of terminals per server?

Bottom line: can a single server handle 35-50 clients?  How much memory 
and hard drive would be enough?

Many thanks,
Barry





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