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- From: alek@spatial.com (Alek O. Komarnitsky)
- Subject: Re: Xterminal-Server ratio wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.002351.16898@spatial.com>
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- Organization: Spatial Technology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)
- References: <1992Sep1.200609.15078@progress.com> <1836euINNaqs@early-bird.think.com> <1992Sep3.022702.13208@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:23:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.022702.13208@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- > barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >}tucker@bedford.progress.COM writes:
- >}> [...ratio of X-terms to compute servers...]
- >And plenty of real-memory. A rough rule of thumb might be 16+n MBs of
- >real memory on your server (n the number of X-terminals you would expect
- >to be active at once [all of them in a class/lab, maybe a fourth of those
- >in offices]). Perhaps, 16+2n MBs if your users tend towards big programs.
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- I'd recommend n >= 4, but it's of course, terribly application specific.
- Bottom Line: Memory is pretty cheap these days - more is *much* better!
-
- Alek Komarnitsky 303-449-0649
- Software Tools Manager, Spatial Technology, Inc. 2425 55th Street, Bldg A
- alek@spatial.com Boulder, CO 80301-5704
-
- P.S. I have one HP710 and two X-terms using Interleaf for Desktop Publishing.
- They are pretty heavy users of Interleaf (only), and we see swap usage of
- about 60-70 Mbytes typically. The 710 has 64 Mbytes of RAM, so we're
- almost always in great shape. I'd feel comfortable doubling the Tech Pubs
- staff with the existing server, but not much more.
-
- Memory is cheaper than people. ;-)
-