February 2005
Beginner
496 pages
16h 10m
English
Content preview from Linux in a Windows WorldBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Hardware Requirements
One of the advantages of thin client computing is that it minimizes the hardware requirements, at least for the computers at which users actually sit. The server hardware, though, must be heavy duty, at least if it’s to support more than a few users. Thus, you must evaluate your hardware requirements very differently for the two sides of the thin client/server coin. You must also consider the hardware that connects these two sides of the coin, because a deficiency in your network infrastructure will severely degrade a thin client network.
Server Requirements
The trickiest part of determining your thin client network’s hardware needs is in deciding what sort of hardware to use on the server. This task is made extremely difficult by the fact that it varies so much depending on the type of work done at your site. Different programs make different demands on memory and CPU time, and these demands scale differently to multiuser loads.
The scaling question is an important one. For instance, suppose you’ve determined, through experimentation, that a desktop system needs a 2-GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 512 MB of RAM, and a 60-GB hard disk to operate comfortably for a typical user. An obvious, but probably wrong, extrapolation would be that a 10-user server would need a 20-GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 5 GB of RAM, and a 600-GB hard disk—10 times the single desktop system’s values. (Of course, some of these specifications, such as a 20-GHz Pentium 4 CPU, can’t be met!) Most desktop computer ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.