large-ish deployments

[Jérôme Warnier]

Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 12:16 -0600, James Call a écrit :
> Jonathan wrote:
> " Yes, going diskless is great for maintenance purposes. I think it's the
> way to go in large deployments. "
> 
> We have 25 diskless terminals hooked up to a server and whenever the
> students use tuxtyping, gcompris, or look at a web page with some
> animation/flash then the server gets totally dogged down and terminals
> start locking up.
One way would be to use the AND[1] daemon to prevent such bad behaviour,
it would renice or even kill such processes. Don't know if it is
available under (Ed)Ubuntu, but it is in Debian.

But of course, fixing the programs themselves is better.

> We are using a AMD dualcore with 3gig memory and ipaq desktop diskless
> PXE boots.
> Now everyone at our school thinks it is awesome and want us to expand
> to about 50 terminals next year.
> 
> What can we do?? We are in Mexico and our budget is a big constraint.

[1] Auto Nice Daemon: http://and.sourceforge.net/
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