Help! Would you recommend running ltsp on Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10?

[Richard Doyle]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:17 -0800, john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to migrate from 7.04 to 8.04 since last fall. I can
> only do it during downtime at our school. I have this week while kids
> are on break to try and get the new system in.  My problem is that  I
> can't seem to scale the LTSP installation based on 8.04 past 6-8 thin
> clients before the server crashes. The server is running 16 gigs ram/
> AMD 64 image with Ntavo 6030 thin clients each with 512M ram. The thin
> clients are rolled with the i386 image.
> 
> I can't find anything in the logs that shows me where the problem
> lies.  I've been running 7.04 successfully for a couple of years now
> so I feel like the problem lies with 8.04 somewhere. I am trying to
> decide whether to can 8.04 and begin working on 8.10.  Or perhaps
> retry 8.04 under 32 bit with the Server-Image kernel for larger memory
> support. Can any one give me some guidance? Did you make 8.04 work
> just fine (if so did you do it under 32 or 64) or did you end up going
> for the latest and the greatest?
Running 32-bit 8.04 here to support 16 HP5125 thin clients. Works well
for our classroom.

>   All things being equal I'd prefer to
> run 8.04 since it'll be supported till 2011.
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> John
>