We are upgrading our Pentium Pro 150 server. Tentatively, we

had planned on using a Pentium II 233 with dual processors.

The folks at Novell indicated that the Novell server can only

utilize one processor, but that a database such as oracle could

utilize both processors. Will Arev be able to use both processors?

We are upgrading from 96 megs of 60ns edo ram to 128megs of 10ns

sram. We have considered going to 64mb sram inorder to put

256mb of ram into the server. Any ideas on how this might

increase performance as opposed to a super fast scsi drive?

We are adding an additional NIC hoping it will

also increase performance. However, it will not be serving a

seperate segment, just providing another connection to the stacked

hubs. Feedback about where the bottlenecks are best attacked

is appreciated.

TIA, Jim Dierking

Jim,

Whether memory or disk is the answer depends on several factors.

How many records? What is the average size? How many indexes?

How many key parts, on average? How may indexes have conversions (date, time or money?) How many users? 10 or 100 Base T?

I think the folks at Novell, again, are staring out of their navels.

It's the underlying OS that determines how may processors can be used unless Oracle is somehow supplanting Novell (NOT!).

A serious consideration is what effect turning off TTS and Win95/WinNT caching will have on the network. If you use them, (oh,yeah, packet burst, also), you WILL get corrupt indexes/files.

I switched to WinNT (forget the Rev add-ons unless you've got 100+ users, I have yet to hear anything about the bugs being gone. Heck, even AREV before 3.12 still has a SELECT bug that RTI is reluctant to mention. Get a dual 266 or 300, Ultra-wide SCSI (Western Digital is one of my faves, tho their IDEs s*** big time) Invest in the best 100BaseT (3Com is great) you can afford; consider FDDI. A dual Pentium II can only use 128MB of memory efficiently; beyond that, it actually slows the system down (check with PC Week, Windows Mag, etc. - this is NOT an opinion, it is based on their tests). 64MB per PentiumII is that max it can address without paging.

Lastly, put in a good document oriented intranet and off-load some of the reporting and all of the RTI type reports. Export out and then import in with either SQL 6.5 or just a word processor; it'll go faster and look professional. I actually am storing more and more of my low-use AREV stuff in either SQL databases or Access (or up-sized Access97). Slower? Please, don't make me laugh.

Besides, your customers actually hear of Frontpage, Access, VB5, VC5, VJ++!

BTW, if you're at Novell 3.12+, you can run concurrently with NT 4.0 until you decide which is better. My personal opinion is that Novell with eventually join Kaypro and dBase in the vast chip-farm in the sky. (along with Netscape!).

Also, if you're going to use Novell, look on their FTp site, they just posted a bunch of updates today (like a supposed fix for that piece of )&*098)(* called Client32.)

Later,

Larry

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Novell only able to run one processor?

Look into Novell IntraNetWare 4.11. I'm currently using two Pentium Pro 200 processors in a Compaq 6000 using Novell IntraNetWare with AREV 3.11.

Novell only able to run one processor?

Look into Novell IntraNetWare 4.11. I'm currently using two Pentium Pro 200 processors in a Compaq 6000 using Novell IntraNetWare with AREV 3.11.

Rob, Are you telling me you are getting better performance by using

a dual processor w/ IW4.11? Did you do any benchmark testing against

a single processor? TIA, Jim

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