[K12OSN] Server/Client Performance

[Henning Wangerin]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:52, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> Hello all,
>     I'm hoping to set up a very small K12LTSP deployment for a local 
> church in the near future using donated (trashed, actually) hardware and 
> I have a question regarding performance.  I've got a pretty low-end PC 
> here that I want to use as the server: a P-233 with 256MB RAM.  What 
> kind of performance can I expect for 2 clients connected to this machine 
> for use as a Web Browsing/Word Processing cluster?  Is it a safe 
> assumption that the clients would perform these tasks about as well as 
> the server itself?

I don't think that would work.
At least get som RAM. 512Mb or 1Gb if the board supports it.

I've been running 3 clients with simple officeworks on a 700MHz Celeron
with 400Mb RAM, with a rewasonable result.

But if you don't have to CPU speed you definatly want lots of RAM
-- 
Henning Wangerin <mailinglists-after-041101_reply-not-possible at hpc.dk>