I would say it rather depends on how it is implemented. Is it a command line driven app, a web server, an X-window app, etc? Each of these has rather different resource requirements.
As a single data point, we had a Sun 4 server running SunOS support >1600 user accounts doing email over a command line client. The email queue had several thousand emails in it at any one time, but obn the whole it coped. I don't believe any email was lost. For reference, the sparc processor in a sun 4 was roughly equivalent to a 486 at about 50MHz, with about 64MB of memory. So your PC at 30 times the power should easily be able to handle that load - if CLI, and even probably for a web application. Cheers On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 08:43:50PM -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote: > I would expect that it should be able to do it. > > It should also be able to produce a log of all keystrokes and mouse events > received and processed. > > An audit laptop would be able to independently sniff the keystroke and mouse > events off the LAN and verify that the log from the test scoring machine > matches the events sent by the test taker machines. It could also detect > interference on the LAN during the test session. > > -- rec -- > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:46 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Gary > > The question is this -- "Can a Pentium server at 1.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM > running a proprietary Linux OS service 125 PCs on a LAN during an a > competitive exam and very reliably record every keystroke and mouse click > of each of these 125 examinees. The same server is simultaneously also > disiplaying a unique exam on screen for each examinee where the sequence > of > questions is jumbled and the answer options are jumbled for each examinee. > > I am being flooded just now with complaints of a recent very prestigious > online exam in India where candidates all over India are saying their > answers have not been properly recorded. This is not the first time > similar complaints have come for this exam. > > Also these local servers usually run Windows, but for this exam the exam > vendor loads his proprietary Linux OS as a dual boot along with his own > application software. > > Sarbajit > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> > wrote: > > Just my opinion, but I believe Linux is generally well suited for any > server task. Especially on older and slower hardware > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:42 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Friamers > > Can any guide me if a Pentium PC server at 1,.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM > on a Linux version is capable of doing a certain task very > reliably > ? > > As it is a confidential thing, please message me directly. 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