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Re: How bandwidth requirement could be reduced when using thin clients?



> > > I'll appreciate your comments on this document Jim, Jonas and
> > > others:
> > > http://developer.skolelinux.no/driftskonsepter/2004-09-06-thin-clie
> > >nts.html
> >
> > i'm curious about several things in the chart.
> >
> > is the "3. alt." "Lessdisk" exploring lessdisks as a "half-thick
> > client"?
> 
> It's a figure of speak. When a user application runs at the local CPU, 
> not the server, then I call it half-thick. 

i understand the half-thick client concept, but i was wondering if you
were targeting using lessdisks *as* a half-thick client, or exploring
using only as a replacement for the current LTSP, or both.

> > what are the memory requirements based on? ?i've mostly used
> > lessdisks with 32-64MB of ram.
> 
> I corrected it. 

this really depends on what kind of applications you'd want to run- if
it is used as a conventional thin-client or half-thick client...

that's why i was wondering if you were exploring lessdisks as a
"half-thick client", because the memory and CPU requirements seemed high
for a typical lessdisks "thin-client".

> > what does the "Band width" mean? it is a range of used bandwidth,
(i meant to say, "is it", not "it is" :)
> > from boot-up to average useage? ?does that include loading the initrd
> > at boot-time? ?there are some simple machanisms to reduce the size of
> > the initrd dramatically, which will save a lot of bandwidth during
> > boot.
> 
> "band width" is a unfortunate misspelling of bandwidth. 

i understood that, too, but was more interested in where the numbers
came from- what they actually represented. 

> > i hope to have a new upstream lessdisks release by the end of the
> > week, with some significant changes and improvements.
> 
> We have questions concerning use of bandwidth, maintenance, and 
> integration with Skolelinux. Finn-Arne will follow this up tomorrow ...

good good.

thanks for considering lessdisks, hopefully we can make it meet
debian-edu's needs.

live well,
  vagrant

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