[TriLUG] Specs for a good workstation

[vikram sai balaji ulaganathan via TriLUG]

Hi all,
Thanks for the suggestions. I will not be using any gui.

On May 6, 2017 3:24 PM, "Steve Litt via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2017 21:09:56 -0400
> vikram sai balaji ulaganathan via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a tower that can run
> > at least 30 to 40 Ubuntu docker containers with a say lamp app?
> > Thanks
> > Vikram
>
> If you mean regular Ubuntu with Unity (or later with Gnome), you could
> get by with quite a bit less hardware by using Lubuntu (Ubuntu with
> LXDE).
>
> The lamp app also makes a difference: Does it spend most of its time
> calculating public/private key pairs and writing three related
> tables, each with 3 different indexes, or does it spend most of its
> time waiting for the user to type several paragraphs into a multiline
> input field?
>
> And of course how often is the app hit? One hit per minute, or 100
> hits per second?
>
> If you were running a no-X Ubuntu getting hit once per minute and doing
> no challenging calculations, I'd guess that any old COTS box with 32GB
> of RAM would do it.
>
> SteveT
>
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