Linux Terminal Server Essay

[Mike]

I seem to remember reading a similar article. 

If a gigabit nic was used, wouldn't that make room for more clients on
each server? Maybe not, but speed of the implemenatation was an issue
that was brought up. IE: everything has to be sent to the server (mouse
movments, characters...) and everything has to be sent from the server
to the client (screen, programs, ....). 

What about server replication? If they do this, I don't think that they
want to administer more than one server (which is logical) so they would
want the server to be able to replicate itself (you have many servers
one the network, but they are all copies of each other) so that only one
would have to be mesed with and the rest would mirror).  

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:03, Mitch Anderson wrote:
> There is a Government down in Florida that is doing such a thing.  their
> city building(s) are all terminal servers... I don't remember the links
> exactly but there have been a number of news sites that have done
> writeups on them and even some of the stats of the main server... The
> main server if I recall correctly wasn't "TOO" beefy... If I remember
> correctly it was just a Dell PowerEdge something or other... with Dual
> 800 - 900 P3(Possibly Xeons) and 2GB Ram, which to my understanding of
> the article RAM was the key factor on both the server and the client. 
> But they had two servers just to split the load but they said they could
> get about 250 on each server.(I think they were running 100-150 on each)
> and they were just buying cheap thin clients on ebay for $15 or less,
> and then they just had the expense of a keyboard, mouse and monitor. 
> I'll look to see if I can find the articles again... but I know there
> was atleast one of them on ZDNet.  But they were doing it on a 100MB
> network and the employees liked the linux terminal setup more than they
> did their previous windows boxen.  No one complained about slowness, so
> the 1gb is a bit much if you ask me...
> 
> I'll reply with the URL's when/if I find them
> 
> Mitch
> 
> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:50, Mike wrote:
> > I am writing an argument paper about using a Linux Terminal Server to
> > run the college's network. I would appreciate it if you would send all
> > of the information on performance, reliablility, and expense to get
> > running that you could. Also, one thing was brought to my attention that
> > made me wonder: I was talked to about the whole theory behind it. It was
> > brought to my attention that you have at most a 1gigahertz cap. Bearing
> > that in mind, all the processing is done on the server and then sent
> > out. Now, the argument that I heard today was that it would be
> > intolerably slow, as the server has to do everything and send it out to
> > x number of clients over a limited bandwidth (1ghz).
> > 
> > Any help that anyone can give me about this issue would be most helpful.
> > Please, don't send the LTSP.org. I have gone there and seen that.
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