[K12OSN] performance issues

[Sudev Barar]

On 03/05/06, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/06, Liam Marshall <k12ltsplover at stmaurice.mb.ca> wrote:
> > I have a dual zeon 3.06 GHz server, currently with 4 80 Gb SATA drives
> > connected to a MegaRaid 4 port raid controller set for raid 0.  I have
> > currently 2 Gb of RAM.
> >
> > Workstations are almost exclusively IBM 300PLs which are thin clients,
> > onboard video, sound, nic, etc
> >
> > They are a little slow when 30+ workstations all load StarOffice 7 at
> > the same time, or when they log out.
>
> Can't do much to speed up 30+ students all starting OOo at the SAME
> time. It's going to be slow on pretty much any server.
[SNIP]

IMHO likely bottleneck is SATA drive. Is the /tmp also on RAID0?

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Sudev Barar
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