Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

[Ken B. <pu...@te...>]

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:26 am, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
> > > I am being assigned a project for a school.  They have a
> > > tight budget.
> > > Right now the are on a windows 2000 server and 28 nodes.
> > > The server is P III 800 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB hdd and a
> > > DSL connection
> > > using a usb modem.
> >
> > Yeah, the server RAM will need to be *much* higher,
> > especially if you are planning on users running big apps,
> > like Netscape and StarOffice.  For 28 clients, figure at
> > the bare minimum 256MB and try to get 512MB.  See how much
> > the mobo can take.  If RAM is cheap, just max it out.
>
> Thanks.  I was thinking something like 256MB.  I was also thinking of
> Clustering.  Have you tried it out?

Adrian,

I just ran across something that might be of use to you.  A friend of mine is 
experimenting with setting up a Mosix cluster (www.mosix.org).  This would be 
perfect for what your customer wants.

In a Mosix cluster, all of the processors and all of the hard drives are 
utilized.  To run LTSP on a mosix cluster, you set aside one machine to be 
the LTSP "server," but it does not need any extra RAM because it actually 
runs it processes on the cluster.

My friend is just starting with this.  He does not know if it will work yet 
(but I know him very well and I can guarantee that he will make it work 
someday).

How much time do you have for your project?

Ken Barber