[K12OSN] server hardware advice

[Krsnendu dasa]

On 30/01/07, Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/01/07, Immanuel Derks <I.Derks at translucent.nl> wrote:
> >
> > I would also be concerned about network bottlencks when serving 75+
> > clients from a single server. Although you can do channel bonding, thus
> > theoretically it should be possible, but I have never had much luck with
> > it bumping the performance...
>
> I think most of us miss an important point about running LTSP is that
> the files read writes processing etc are all happening on the pci bus
> and not network. Only screen refresh information is travelling on
> network. For "most" applications with 40+ people running sessions the
> total network load is seldom more that 10mbps in most my locations.
>
> For instance right now with 19 active connections iptraf report total
> network rates as 4796 kbits/sec
>
What about the traffic from the ltsp servers to the /home server? Will
the network bandwidth make a difference here?