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Re: Numbers?
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 01/Jun/2005, @13:57

One thing to keep in mind with NX is that it is incredibly efficient, more so than anything else available. You can get a reasonable performance with dial up and any bandwidth above that is very good. I would guess they have some kind of broadband or better connection to the internet which is all you need. As far as hardware goes you can run roughly one client per MHz of processor power on the server. So a 3 GHz regular box could run 30 clients with no noticable slowdown. At least this is the data I've been given. Also as you may have interpreted this does not require dedicated connections as it's just another protocol over the network.

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Re: Numbers?
by Martin on Wednesday 01/Jun/2005, @14:57

>As far as hardware goes you can run roughly one client per MHz of processor >power on the server. So a 3 GHz regular box could run 30 clients with no >noticable slowdown.

Interesting calculation...
Well, it's close to midnight. Perhaps I'm just too tired and cant
figure it out right now. I'll try again tomorrow ;-)

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Re: Numbers?
by LMCBoy on Wednesday 01/Jun/2005, @17:48

> As far as hardware goes you can run roughly one client per MHz of processor power on the server. So a 3 GHz regular box could run 30 clients with no noticable slowdown.

Not to pick nits, but that does not compute. Did you mean that it costs about 100 MHz of CPU per client (3 GHz/30 = 100 MHz), or that a 3 GHz machine can host 3000 clients (3 GHz / 1 MHz = 3000 clients) ?

I guess it must be the former...?

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