[K12OSN] WBEL--k12ltsp stats

[Caleb Wagnon]

Well....I've been running WBEL and K12LTSP (the 3.x packages) for a couple of
weeks now and this has been the most efficient server I've ever had. My users
primarily use mozilla, openoffice, tuxmath, tuxtype, and tuxpaint. My window
manager of choice is icewm-lite because its so resource friendly (and has a
nifty xp theme) Things seem "zippier" than my previous k12ltsp setup (3.1.2)
and I think this is primarily due to the newer kernel. Right now there's not a
huge load...only 13 or so terminals on at the moment....but check out my
average usage:

[cwagnon at LTSP cwagnon]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3934180    1897936    2036244          0      87956    1424208
-/+ buffers/cache:     385772    3548408
Swap:      2040244          0    2040244
[cwagnon at LTSP cwagnon]$ who
anderson 192.168.0.247:0 Mar 24 13:52 (192.168.0.247)
anderson 192.168.0.252:0 Mar 30 12:17 (192.168.0.252)
cwagnon  pts/0        Mar 30 13:49 (192.168.0.2:0)
quarles2 192.168.0.250:0 Mar 30 11:46 (192.168.0.250)
owensm   192.168.0.1:0 Mar 25 14:17 (192.168.0.1)
hart2    192.168.0.237:0 Mar 24 09:09 (192.168.0.237)
mays2    192.168.0.232:0 Mar 24 09:10 (192.168.0.232)
steelman 192.168.0.229:0 Mar 30 13:25 (192.168.0.229)
cwagnon  192.168.0.2:0 Mar 30 13:48 (192.168.0.2)
steelman 192.168.0.228:0 Mar 26 09:56 (192.168.0.228)
steelman 192.168.0.234:0 Mar 29 14:32 (192.168.0.234)
steelman 192.168.0.233:0 Mar 26 09:57 (192.168.0.233)
steelman 192.168.0.227:0 Mar 26 10:03 (192.168.0.227)
quarles3 192.168.0.249:0 Mar 30 13:03 (192.168.0.249)
quarles1 192.168.0.225:0 Mar 30 13:12 (192.168.0.225)
[cwagnon at LTSP cwagnon]$

We're adding to this server....so far we have about 70 terminals running from
it (not concurrently) and we should be up to at least 100 this summer. The
above is my average usage. My peak concurrent usage has been about 30
terminals...at that time the memory usage spikes no higher than 1.5gb. This is
a dual xeon 1.8ghz server (Dell Poweredge 4600). 100mbit to the terminals and
gig to the server. I figure with the above average usage I have plenty of room
to grow with this setup.

The primary layout is 3 terminals per classroom...but we have one classroom
with 6 laid out in a lab formation. We are currently in the process of moving
teacher desktops to terminals. We have finally selected the hp 5300 thinclient
from disklessworkstations.com for this (awesome).

I thought this info might prove useful to someone out there. Great work guys.

-- 
Caleb Wagnon MCP A+ CCNA
Technology Coordinator
Fordyce School District
870.352.2968
http://redbugs.dsc.k12.ar.us