The MYTH of GHZ.

[lowtech1]

My last job was at a research station & they uses a dual Ultra for X-term....at anytime serving from 80 to 300 clients with no problem. I just don't understand why bosses listen to the salesman that pitches crappy MS products instead of their IT guys that they supposedly hired to think/do.

MHZ isn't everything, because everything come down to good codes.

 

[PlatinumGold]

a terminal server session should take up about 20 something mb of ram (sometimes more) on the server, and should take about 56KBit worth of bandwidth (think 56k modem) for usable image quality (1024x768x16bit). That xeon 1mb 550mhz should be able to handle about 50 clients simultaneously if it has ~512mb memory.

Not exactly true. it really depends on how many apps you are using off the terminal server. my clients use a very memory intensive database app off terminal server. it takes closer to 100 mb of ram for each client.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: hemicuda
dam expensive and ridiculous servers i can build anything better and cheaper than that apple is a joke and always will be why dont u go price a imac and see what that costs u

Riiiight. Since when did the price of the iMac have anything to do with high-end servers?

Well, then, why don't you go build me a 1U server with all the same specs as the XServe and let me know if you can do it cheaper. This oughtta be good.
And don't go taking some crapass Compaq pizza box off the junk heap to use as your case, either....that's not a valid shortcut.

 

[lowtech1]

Not exactly true. it really depends on how many apps you are using off the terminal server. my clients use a very memory intensive database app off terminal server. it takes closer to 100 mb of ram for each client.

Again you might want to check your database server & network, because only the first client will use large amount of memory, but that should be considered as the inital operation at start with the OS & any other services that you are running.

Eadh application & the OS will take X amount of memory but it shouldn't be much more than 384 megs of memory as suggested by MS & many other vendors, and the subsequence clients doesn't take much more ram (depending on the apps). Even with Cognos PowerPlay, Impromtu, Excel, Word & email client all open at the same time shouldn't take much more than 40megs per client on MS TS.

I have had DB2, Oracle & DC/Exchange run on various Pentium Pro 200mhz single, dual & quad with 64-128 megs of ram. They aren't the fastest of servers, but they all do able in a pinch.