[K12OSN] Server sizing in the real world

[Sudev Barar]

On 10/13/05, Barry Solof <barry at yellowdog.com> wrote:
> 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?

I have only run single CPU ~2ghz servers with upto 4gb RAM. Serverves
perfectly in OO+Firefox about 25+ clients. I know I disabled chess as
it is memory hog. SCSI if you can or SATA.
HTH
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux