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Hello,

> 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?

I have a 300MHz PowerPC box here ( running AIX ) which doesn't get
anywhere near breaking into sweat with 5 clients building NetBSD
releases at the same time entirely via NFS so I guess you won't even
need a modern PC to serve 20-30 diskless clients. As Jason said, your
best bet is probably a switch with a bunch of 100MBit ports for the
clients and a gigabit port for the server. Getting a good gigabit card
for the server will probably help more than spending the extra
bucks for a faster CPU.

have fun
Michael

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