[Server-devel] Latest on capacity of the school server

[David Leeming]

Thanks, that is very useful. 

 

Have you actually deployed any schools with 250-500 yet, Sridhar?

 

David Leeming

 

From: Tim McNamara [mailto:paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 6:16 p.m.
To: Sridhar Dhanapalan
Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Latest on capacity of the school server

 

On 6 July 2010 17:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:

On 2 July 2010 03:45, David Leeming <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> What experience do we have on the latest thinking about the capacity of a
> single server? Here in Kosrae they have good 24/7 power availability and
> air-conditioned offices in five of the schools. We can therefore specify
> powerful machines, even dedicated server models if need be.  If we
segregate
> off each of the 24 class groups, would a single powerful machine server be
> able to handle 500 students in 24 classes (courses) simultaneously? (of
> course in practice that maximum load will rarely occur).
>


6) 250-500 XOs: 5-15 APs, XS with dual-core 2GHz+ CPU and 4GB RAM,
gigabit network. Site issues will be the primary concern.


We have reckoned for 30 active XOs per AP.

 

Sridhar & others

 

How do 7200rpm SATA hard drive speeds match up under this much simultaneous
load?

 

Tim

 

 

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