Subject: performance/scaleability of diskless setup
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Joern Clausen <joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/2005 19:38:17
Hi!

I've been playing around with some machines in diskless mode lately. The
netboot how-to is really great in explaining all the necessary steps.

Does anyone has any figures on performance of a mid-sized network of
diskless clients? If I have 20-30 modern PCs (lots of RAM, local swap
partition might be possible), is a single, equally modern PC sufficient
as boot and file server (client roots, maybe swaps, shared /usr)? How
many clients are possible/reasonable? Or is the potential bottleneck the
network itself?

Joern

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