Thursday, August 11, 2005

eDirectory & a lab full of Linux machines

As I've mentioned in previous posts, we're in the process of putting together a hundred-seater lab running Novell Linux Desktop. Well with an image completed and tested, we took the opportunity on Tuesday to ghost the lab.

This had an interesting effect on our network that we only noticed during the course of Wednesday (once normal load returned) — it caused a significant increase in the CPU usage on three of our Netware servers. The spike can be seen in the graph below:

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