Hi,
We are going to be installing some thin clients at work, probably
about 10 or so, and I want to push to run them off a linux (hopefully
Gentoo) server. They will ONLY be running 1 custom app (maybe 2 to 3
others later, but still 10-15 thin clients), which will be pretty
small, and pretty resource light. The app is in VB6, but I have great
hopes for getting it to run under wine, as it is pretty basic, and
only needs odbc and a couple of custom activex's.
So the thing is that I read somewhere some random comment about
needing 4 gig of ram or something... clearly random because that is
going to vary enormously. So what sort of range do people think would
be reasonable (I am going to have to sell this to the very M$-oriented
guys at work...) for memory? Will this need a special kernel?
Most of the day it will be pretty underused but around 8:00 and 16:30
there will be 10-12 people logged in all doing some pretty serious db
querying (we may be able to get a 1gig line to the db if necessary,
cos things need to be lightning quick). Nothing fancy though, just
basic db access stuff. What sort of processor could we get away with
if running gentoo?
Any input welcome
Cheers
Antoine
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We are going to be installing some thin clients at work, probably
about 10 or so, and I want to push to run them off a linux (hopefully
Gentoo) server. They will ONLY be running 1 custom app (maybe 2 to 3
others later, but still 10-15 thin clients), which will be pretty
small, and pretty resource light. The app is in VB6, but I have great
hopes for getting it to run under wine, as it is pretty basic, and
only needs odbc and a couple of custom activex's.
So the thing is that I read somewhere some random comment about
needing 4 gig of ram or something... clearly random because that is
going to vary enormously. So what sort of range do people think would
be reasonable (I am going to have to sell this to the very M$-oriented
guys at work...) for memory? Will this need a special kernel?
Most of the day it will be pretty underused but around 8:00 and 16:30
there will be 10-12 people logged in all doing some pretty serious db
querying (we may be able to get a 1gig line to the db if necessary,
cos things need to be lightning quick). Nothing fancy though, just
basic db access stuff. What sort of processor could we get away with
if running gentoo?
Any input welcome
Cheers
Antoine
--
G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list