We are running 5 diskless X/NetBSD stations (sparcs) off a
PII-300/128MB at home. Netscape, emacs, mail-server, games
etc. Performance is acceptable. The 10MB network is the major
bottleneck.
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Rex McMaster                       rex@mcmaster.wattle.id.au
                     http://www.compsoft.com.au/~rmcm/pgp-pk

John A. Maier writes:
 > I've been kicking around the idea of migrating a bunch of my older PCs   
 > here at school to X stations.
 > 
 > I was planing on boot NetBSD and do a X -broadcast to get an xdm login   
 > off of a server.  Typically the students will just use it for netscape   
 > and email things.
 > 
 > Anyone doing this at another facility?  What is the max load of Xstations   
 > you can hang off of a given server?
 > 
 > I'm looking at 3-5 X/NetBSD stations off of a PII-300 w/ 128 MB, see   
 > reasonable?
 > 
 > John A. Maier
 > Kemper Military School and College
 > Director of MIS
 > Voice: 660-882-5623
 > Fax: 660-882-3778
 > Email: johnam@kemper.org
 > Web: www.kemper.org