It's about time...

It's about time...

Posted Aug 4, 2005 17:11 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: It's about time... by jabby
Parent article: Our bloat problem

> Even after setting up LTSP on a reasonably powerful machine, it can only power about 4-5 terminals with KDE or GNOME and Firefox before the RAM on the LTSP server is exhausted.

I have a client that has a 1266MHz PIII w/1GB running Fedora Core 2 which runs 16+ terminals, 8 of which are remote and use Xvnc making them much heavier since a virtual X server has to run on the FC2 box, plus 70+ telnet sessions of a curses based point of sale/accounting package that they use, plus a web server and postgresql database server. (The web and db servers are lightly loaded.)

It runs Gnome 2.6 and OpenOffice and does just fine.

To be honest, we did up it to 2GB recently, but that was more of a luxury than a necessity.

I just checked and with the 2GB, disk buffers (cache+buffer) is 783MB, with 64MB in swap and 48M free.

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