OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[Walter Vaughan]

Doug Luurs wrote:

> I am looking into upgrading my hardware for my Main SCO/Filepro Box, and
> Am looking for suggestion.
> 
> Current Configuration :-
> 	Dell PowerEdge 2650
> 		Dual Xeon Processors (2.6G)
> 		2 Gig RAM
> 		13.6G ATA Hard Drives
> 	SCO 5.0.7 w/ SMP License
> 	125 Users
> 	~150 Databases (Most All Tried to one another)
> 		Some ranging as large as 94 - 350 Meg Multi-Indexes.

Well I can just about guarantee that you aren't CPU bound.

 From my experience, seeing the speedup going from SCO Openserver to FreeBSD on 
the same hardware, you may just want to either look at running OpenServer6 or 
FreeBSD6.

You also might want to look at a hardware RAD solution. Some array types have 
fast read times, and others have fast write times. Since you have run tuneup 
applications, you might have an idea as to what your pct of writes vs. reads 
are. 15K SCSI drives are your friend here. The newest SATA drives have elevator 
seeking, so the performance difference will be close to the more expensive SCSI 
drives.

Dream system? 5 grand would get you about as fast as you can go with standard 
hardware, but I would look at disk subsystem upgrades and a OS change to perk up 
your filepro. If I had a reasonable budget, I'd probably use Xeon or Opertons's 
not much faster than you have already with a killer disk system.

Also, are you absolutely sure every person's applications are always using some 
sort of index to find data?

Your Mileage May Vary, and I Am Not A Laywer, so take the above advice with a 
tablespoon of sugar.

--
Walter