[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[Les Mikesell]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> I had looked at using SMB/LDAP along with multiple less powerful load balanced LTSP
> servers, but from my testing the NFS shared /home and the remote users in LDAP had a
> significant effect in speeds.  Machine bootup and general navigation seemed delayed. 
> This is why I am looking at keeping storage and user accounts local on a single server.

This doesn't make a lot of sense.  There shouldn't be much traffic to 
/home during bootup.  Are you sure you didn't create a network 
bottleneck with server location?  I'd expect several dual-nic servers 
with isolated client networks to be faster.

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   Les Mikesell
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