upgrading server

[Lerebours, Jose]

Enrique posted:

> Hi,
> 
> Anybody here running a Proliant ML-370 or ML-570 server with 
> filepro and 
> linux ? The ML-370 has 2 Xeon 3.6Ghz/800FSB/2MB cache and the 
> ML-570 has 4 
> of them (CPU's) same specs. Will we notice a difference with 
> filepro or it 
> doesn't matter because the Hard drives speed ( 15K SCSI) set 
> the pace  for 
> filepro database processing ?.
> 
>   We're in the process of upgrading our 3 year old P3 1.4Ghz 
> server and 
> maybe OS to linux and I want to see if somebody has any input 
> of these 
> servers with RED HAT and filepro/vsifax
> 

Am I getting this right or it seem that your actual intend is
to joke around ... Are you really concerned on downgrade
performance if you upgrade from P3 1.4Ghz to "an actual" server
with 2 or 4 Xeon 3.6Ghz with 2MB RAM?

If filePro chokes on a dual/quad xeon processor server, dump it!
No, not the server, filePro.

Nice to learn that filePro is more dependent on HD speed that 
it is on RAM - I did not know this?  I guess that this should be
true for some tasks not all.  I recall a message where Ken
described how filePro uses RAM/CACHE to do some things.

We have an old proliant 7000 with 18 HDs & 4 Xeon 500Mhz and 1.0G
RAM with an average load of 110 users and the CPUs barely blink.  
When we upgraded from a Quad 200Mhz, we found that the speed went
up drastically.  

I would not expect you to have a decreased performance.


Regards;


Jose Lerebours