45 thin clients = slow squeeze

[Ole-Anders Andreassen <olea@skolelinux.no>]

Last week our new Squeeze installation was tested.

Server used was a 4x quad core server, 16GB RAM with 4 SAS disks
Gigabit network to all clients
Clients, Acer Veriton G480L with 2 GB ram

45 clients booted as thin clients. Booting takes several minutes.
All users opening firefox, openoffice and a pdf file (okular).

The result was a server load of 60.

Closing the pdf files helped, but the clients was still slow.
On some of the clients OpenOffice was "lagging" when typing.

K-menu used 10-15 secs to respond




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Ole-Anders Andreassen
Sunndal ungdomsskole