On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:39 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> On Saturday 08 January 2005 02:26 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
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> > I think it is too little ram. X on  two of my systems is currently using
> > 43MB for memory (19MB resident) and 70MB (8MB resident). Add on other
> > local software like the kernel, and you will be swapping like crazy (even
> > when main apps are ran on LTSP server).
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> So 128MB is probably a good minimum.  According to the spec on the motherboard 
> they max RAM at 192MB.  (Spec for all of the terminal boxes is here: 
> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupport/digital/venturis_fx_specs.html).  We 
> can add 128MB to the 8 already there.
> > The other issue is that it probably may not have a good video card for
> > good video performance.
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> The specs say "Integrated S3TM Trio 64V+ graphics accelerator:1MB EDO graphics 
> memory, upgradable to 2MB."  I assume this would be at least usa
> ble.
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sounds reasonable
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> > I'd suggest get a GB of ram if you are using cheap hardware.
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for decent performance, you are gonna need 128Mb for each client plus
another 256Mb for the server. Rough estimates but I think you get the
idea.

NIC's with boot ROM's mean you don't have to fool with floppies.

Craig

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