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Re: Stress test in ltsp



El jue, 17-04-2008 a las 12:05 +0900, nigel barker escribió:
> 
> José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> > In the medium term, I'll have to start 30 clients per server, but we
> > have to take a decission about the kind of ltsp server we're going to
> > use a.s.a.p, so any advice is welcome.
> >   
> 
> In my experience its better to have more ltspservers with few clients 
> each, to avoid the issues you have raised. There is nothing worse than 
> the whole computer lab grinding to a halt, and kids start saying "these 
> computers are rubbish, you should use windows".
> 
> Could you buy cheaper servers (eg. dual or quad core hobby PCs with SATA 
> and 4 RAM slots; 16 port switch) and run 15 clients each? Now I have < 
> 12 clients per server. Each server costs me around USD1000.
> 
> Of course you would double your server maintenance, which may be 
> important in your case.
> 

Yes, and not only the maintenance, also the place to put the server,
would be double, and I'm going to buy almost 4000 servers (one per every
secondary classroom), so the cost would rise too much if I buy almost
8000 instead. 

Saludos.

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