[FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?

[Russell Standish]

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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