Re: [uml-devel] 30 UML-client hardware specs

[Michael R. <mc...@sa...>]

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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Stoop <cv...@me...> writes:
    Tim> Finally, we got my university interested in doing a Linux practicum. I showed 
    Tim> them UML and they decided to use that, in combination with Putty and 
    Tim> Cygwin-X-server on Windows Desktops. So now they need a central server that 
    Tim> people can use for their work. Work will consist of: Installing the stuff, 
    Tim> configuring it, network-setup and -maintenance... Not really difficult stuff.

    Tim> They asked me for a hardware spec of a server that could handle 30 clients. 
    Tim> I'm not really "into" hardware, so I hoped you would be willing to advise me 
    Tim> in this matter?

    Tim> Things I thought out myself:
    Tim> - Better have about 2GB of RAM, so each user can be assigned 64MB.
    Tim> - Instead of 1x80GB SCSI HD, better have 8x10GB SCSI HD, for better 
    Tim> I/O-performance
    Tim> - Probably a 2xAMD Athlon MP 2000+
    Tim> - A full-duplex, 100MBit NIC ;-)

    Tim> Any comments? Did I leave anything out? Am I on a wrong track here?

  Don't buy one machine.
  I/O performance is probably irrelevant.

  Buy three or four machines of much lower cost.

  See the "make uml" target in FreeSWAN (www.freeswan.org).
  I'm happy to help.... 

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