Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jonas Smedegaard] > ~ The WRR scheduler is an extension to the Traffic Control/network > ~ bandwidth management part of the Linux 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. > ~ The scheduler was developed to support distributing bandwidth > ~ on a shared Internet connection fairly between local machines. Sounds nice.

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07-10-2004 10:03, Gavin McCullagh wrote: | Hi, | | On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, Herman Robak wrote: | | |> Beware! Not requiring decent hardware almost encourages |>the use of crappy hardware, which will cause a lot of grief, |>and be a great time sink. Su

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, Herman Robak wrote: > Beware! Not requiring decent hardware almost encourages > the use of crappy hardware, which will cause a lot of grief, > and be a great time sink. Such time sinks tend to cost more > than the money saved at the time of purchase. Fair enough. I w

Re: AntiSpam UOL (was: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.)

2004-10-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 02:26 schrieb Herman Robak: > I just got a message from AntiSpam UOL prompting me to confirm that I > really wanted to send mail to (whomever)@uol.com.br Myself received this message, too, for a dozen times. Search the list for posters from .br and try to reach them

AntiSpam UOL (was: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.)

2004-10-06 Thread Herman Robak
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Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Herman Robak
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:52:28 +0100, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I realise that a good switch might well be able to do this but my impression is that Skolelinux should have as few expensive hardware requirements as possible. Beware! Not requiring decent hardware almost encourages

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 06 Oct 2004, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Sounds like WRR (Debian binary package kernel-patch-wrr) to me: > > ~ The WRR scheduler is an extension to the Traffic Control/network > ~ bandwidth management part of the Linux 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. > ~ The scheduler was developed to support dis

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06-10-2004 21:12, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: | hi | | Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 20:40 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: | |>support distributing bandwidth | | | Reading this I wonder to what extend this distribution can be done by | the switch. Modern swi

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
hi Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 20:40 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > support distributing bandwidth Reading this I wonder to what extend this distribution can be done by the switch. Modern switches are highly configurable, I do know that you can higher priority to specific outlets (ports) or subdi

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06-10-2004 18:22, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: | Dear Gavin, | | thank you for addressing this topic. From my experiences, I'd plea for one | LTSP server per room - unless there is only adult internet users using thin | clients. I have some pupils who

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Ben Higginbottom
Kurt wrote: at the aKademy i learnt about the kiosk tools kiosk tools allow to define, what application pupil can start or configure. It is an textfile, a profile which a user can not change. kiosk is working in KDE 3.2 so it will be in sarge. The framework was introduced in v3 and has been heavily

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Dear Gavin, thank you for addressing this topic. From my experiences, I'd plea for one LTSP server per room - unless there is only adult internet users using thin clients. I have some pupils who make fun of running top and then competing for the hightest CPU share. As we have a dual processor m

Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Kurt
* Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041006 17:00]: > Hi, > > We run thin clients similar to ltsp in college. Video apps (xine, mplayer, > goom, screen savers, flash, java, vmware! ...) can cause mayhem. > at the aKademy i learnt about the kiosk tools kiosk tools allow to define, what applic

bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.

2004-10-06 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, We run thin clients similar to ltsp in college. Video apps (xine, mplayer, goom, screen savers, flash, java, vmware! ...) can cause mayhem. With a small group of colleagues it is easy enough to just tell people not to do this. However, in a school with many LTSP clients and very many studen