Warren is serious.  The city of Largo is getting GOOD performance with 200+ users on one server.  The server has 3GB of ram and dual 933mhz PIII.  They are only using 8 bit color (256 colors).  The cpu load is very low, 70-95% idle.  Sounds like memory is the what is really needed.  I would think Largo would get better performance with a different desktop/window manager.  KDE uses too many resources, but it seems to be working great.  

Dusty

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> 
> I am not used to large multi-user systems, not sure if your comment
> is serious or if you're joking -- what kind of performance is this in
> real-world terms? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
> 
> Is this an Intel machine, or a mini- or main-frame type archetecture?
> 
> Aloha, 
> 
> Rob
> 
> --- Warren Togami <warren@togami.com> wrote:
> > Enterprise Linux Today: City of Largo Goes Live With KDE 2.1.1
> > http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2001-07-23-001-14-PS
> > 
> > Absolutely horrible... only 230 users on one server.
> > 
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> > 
> > * It seems that we settled into about 11-12MB of memory per user on
> > the
> > server.  3GB of memory has allowed us to get the 230 concurrent
> > users logged
> > in without using the swap space.
> > 
> > * The dual-933 runs about 5-30% busy during the day with 200+ users
> 
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