Best way(s) to speed up lab?

[Richard Doyle]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 07:58 -0400, Harry Sweet wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> Going into the year, I hope to be able to solve workstation lagging problems once and for all.  I'm not sure where
> the bottleneck is as no swapping happens, and network thruput looks ok.  But I often get lagging when a full class is on.
> 
> 9.04 64 bit Ubuntu
> 
> Server = intel quad core, 8 gig ram, SATA drive, server box has a gigibit ethernet but the switch is 100.
> It also runs the classes web server, very lightly used and along with that Mysql, again not very busy and not used at
> all in most classes.
> 
> 20 Workstations are all 10 year old Ibm's, 256k ram.
> 
> Which of these things would likely improve performance the most?
> 
> 1.  Reinstall the server version of Ubuntu  
> 2.  Lose the GUI on the server or at least drop Gnome for something faster
> 3.  Run Firefox as a local app
> 4.  Get a gigabit switch to replace our 10 year old 100meg switch.
> 5.  Raid or SCSI disks
> 6.. Something I haven't thought of .....
Optimize Firefox performance:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Firefox3Optimize


> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Harry Sweet
> Goshen High School
> Goshen, NY
>