<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I suspect he didn't need two 32GB SSDs in RAID 0, but I don't have<br>
enough context. My gut tells me GigE+netboot would work if the RAM<br>
were bumped up to 16GB. File caches are wonderful things, and a full<br>
install+favored apps of a desktop edition of Ubuntu 8.10 with only<br>
/home put off to another drive left me with less than 7GB on /. Heck,<br>
you could conceivably make that 7GB part of an initrd. :P<br></blockquote><div><br>We did discuss some of this last night. I'm sure Darrin will correct me if I'm wrong, but they originally had all of the homes remotely mounted on a server. However with all 28 stations logging in at the same time (as a class starts), then the kids all using Firefox or Chromium (think cache files), the network or server drives had trouble keeping up. By moving the homes to local storage, they were able to take a big burden off the server and network. Still, all of the students' data (Documents, Videos, Photos, etc) are mapped to the server, and they are working on getting things like Gnome settings up there too.<br>
<br>8GB seems like plenty of RAM. I don't remember seeing it go over 2GB while four of us played with the same station.<br></div></div><br>-- <br> Ben Rousch<br> <a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com">brousch@gmail.com</a><br>
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