[ale] Window Managers for X

[James P. Kinney III]

Running K12LTSP v.5, testing indicates a max load of 200+ thin clients
running KDE on a dual socket, dual-core Opteron w/8GB ram.

On a single socket Opteron w/1GB ram, we launched simultaneous instances
of oowrite on 23 clients in only 48 seconds.

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:40 -0400, John Allgood wrote:
> The load is distributed across multiple Xservers never more than fifty on
> one server and most the load is from running firefox and thunderbird and
> openoffice. My biggest concern would probably network load of using a
> heavier window manager. Motif is very light in all regards.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:12 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Window Managers for X
> 
> That was going to be my next question.  MWM is not very big.  How will
> E16 handle if 25+ instances are ran on one server?  Are we (ale) looking
> at this problem correctly?  Are we thinking that you are looking for a
> light weight WM that you'll be running only one instance of?  You'll be
> running many instances of this WM one one system and I really don't
> think _any_ eye candy is necessary.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 13:54 -0400, John Allgood wrote:
> > Hey Guys
> > 
> > 	There has been a ton of input on this issue and it has been most
> > appreciated. My biggest challenge is to find a window manager that is
> going
> > be manageable and stable with over a hundred users. I don't want the bloat
> > of KDE or GNOME. I might could use E16 or fvwm. I have E16 installed just
> > have not had chance to tweak the menus yet. Again Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > John Allgood
> > 
> 
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