[K12OSN] More feedback on Fedora 10 + LTSP

Terrell Prude' Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Tue Apr 28 13:35:55 UTC 2009


David Hopkins wrote:
>
>> Does tuxmath normally use that insane amount of bandwidth?  70Mb/sec is
>> comparable to 320x240 30fps Youtube video.  Absolutely nothing other than
>> video in my experience using anything near that amount of bandwidth.
>>     
>
> In my experience, it has always been a huge bandwidth hog.
>   

Yup, it does!  I've measured 73Mb/sec on my Cisco Catalyst switch with 
TuxType and similar numbers with TuxMath.  Got similar numbers from the 
ifconfig and a stopwatch.  That's why you need 100Mbps/FullDuplex on 
your clients, Gig-E on your server, and a clean, error-free network.

X11 is a wonderful protocol that allows LTSP to exist in the first 
place, but heavy screen updates do eat up bandwidth.

--TP




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