On 2013-01-24, Jori Mantysalo <jori.mantys...@uta.fi> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >>> There is no problem when students do something on their own. But when ~20 >>> of them are sitting at a computer class and trying to do something at the >>> same time, we run out of memory. > >> in our experience 30 people per server, with 12GB of RAM, worked OK. > > 12 GB is quite much for one application.
Our servers weren't physical hardware either, they were VMWare virtual hosts; 12GB was the limit VMWare supported (that's why we couldn't do with just one instance). Indeed, this way you only really use the hardware for the class, and in the remaining time it costs basically nothing to even keep them up. > Of course it is not that much > today when you buy one computer. But we have virtual servers running on > hosts located in a computer room. They are physically quite secure, have > backups arranged etc. > > At least now I will see if immutable .vdi will work. > > -- > Jori Mäntysalo > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en.
