Thanks to the following for their responses:
Peter Chapin
Brian Hostetter
Joe Spanicek
John Hascall
Andy Adamson
The theme of the responses were that I would probably need more memory
than I have right now; probably 1 GB will be sufficient. The biggest
problem seems to be that the memory overhead for running either a CDE or
DECwindows session will be quite high (a few to over 10 MB each user).
Then there is the issue of swap space for this much memory. It would be
best to spread them out over a couple of disks, on different SCSI
channels if possible.
I didn't get any responses about system parameter changes, but I'm
guessing at the very least, the "maxusers" in the config file should be
bumped up. I'm taking a guess at about 10 processes per user, so I
would bump it to something like 512 and rebuild the kernel.
Someone mentioned that I'll need to add user license units to allow this
many people to log in. I'll have to at least have a temporary
upgrade for this (this exercise will only last for a couple of weeks).
This solves the log-in problem. I realized that the big usage problem
will come when all 50 of those users attempt to compile their programs
at the same time. So I'm starting to think that maybe the real solution
to this problem is to spread the users out onto different systems. I
figure 3 more systems like mine (or bigger), each with 16 user licenses
should cover it.
thanks again for all your inputs. If you'll excuse me, I have to go do
some begging from some co-workers...
eyc
Received on Fri May 15 1998 - 19:49:37 NZST