Setup used in Greek Schools

Alkis Georgopoulos alkisg at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 13:03:55 UTC 2015


On 12/06/2015 06:16 μμ, Job Cacka wrote:
> Years ago, we used 64MB of RAM per thin client connection as a rule of
> thumb for calculating RAM. So if your class size is 25 thin clients you
> would want 64 MB * 25 = 1600 MB or 1.56 GB. I think this rule of thumb
> is old however. We were using LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 10.04 I believe. However
> if you doubled the RAM requirements you would still be under your 4GB.


Currently we're using these formulas:
1) Server RAM = 1500 + 30*fat-clients + 300*thin-clients
2) Server CPU = 1500 + 30*fat-clients + 300*thin-clients
...the server CPU measured in passmark, e.g.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-3220+@+3.30GHz
Average CPU Mark = 4210



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