[FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?
Marcus Daniels
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Sun Apr 23 15:57:39 EDT 2023
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> On Apr 23, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
>
> I would say it rather depends on how it is implemented. Is it a command line driven app, a web server, an X-window app, etc? Each of these has rather different resource requirements.
>
> As a single data point, we had a Sun 4 server running SunOS support
>> 1600 user accounts doing email over a command line client. The email
> queue had several thousand emails in it at any one time, but obn the
> whole it coped. I don't believe any email was lost.
>
> For reference, the sparc processor in a sun 4 was roughly equivalent
> to a 486 at about 50MHz, with about 64MB of memory.
>
> So your PC at 30 times the power should easily be able to handle that
> load - if CLI, and even probably for a web application.
>
> Cheers
>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 08:43:50PM -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>> I would expect that it should be able to do it.
>>
>> It should also be able to produce a log of all keystrokes and mouse events
>> received and processed.
>>
>> An audit laptop would be able to independently sniff the keystroke and mouse
>> events off the LAN and verify that the log from the test scoring machine
>> matches the events sent by the test taker machines. It could also detect
>> interference on the LAN during the test session.
>>
>> -- rec --
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:46 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Gary
>>
>> The question is this -- "Can a Pentium server at 1.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM
>> running a proprietary Linux OS service 125 PCs on a LAN during an a
>> competitive exam and very reliably record every keystroke and mouse click
>> of each of these 125 examinees. The same server is simultaneously also
>> disiplaying a unique exam on screen for each examinee where the sequence of
>> questions is jumbled and the answer options are jumbled for each examinee.
>>
>> I am being flooded just now with complaints of a recent very prestigious
>> online exam in India where candidates all over India are saying their
>> answers have not been properly recorded. This is not the first time
>> similar complaints have come for this exam.
>>
>> Also these local servers usually run Windows, but for this exam the exam
>> vendor loads his proprietary Linux OS as a dual boot along with his own
>> application software.
>>
>> Sarbajit
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:52 PM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Just my opinion, but I believe Linux is generally well suited for any
>> server task. Especially on older and slower hardware
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:42 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Friamers
>>
>> Can any guide me if a Pentium PC server at 1,.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM
>> on a Linux version is capable of doing a certain task very reliably
>> ?
>>
>> As it is a confidential thing, please message me directly. I have
>> to ask as I don't use Linux.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Sarbajit Roy
>> New Delhi India
>>
>>
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