OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[John Esak]

>
> > 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.
>
> One thing stands out here. You really need a SCSI Raid hard drive
> system. Your performance would be phenomenally increased on searches.

A ditto on this. Although, the SATA Raids are unbelievably fast now. I'm
going to assume you are using one. Still a raid made up of 320 SCSI drives,
20k why not? :-) would go lots faster. (Actually, there is plenty of reason
NoT to waste money on the 20k drives if they are going in a RAID, but I
would go for them anyway, just to be with the very latest technology.) It
may be that some optical drives arrays would still be faster than all this,
but I'm not sure their huge price difference really warrants the expense.

We just bought a huge Dell server for $8,100. Just about what you are
showing, but all SCSI 320 drives and 200Gb of it. The chips are 3.2 also. I
do not think/remember that they are Zeon though. Go for that if the expense
is not a problem.

My real suggestion... almost hate to make it considering we are not fully up
on the 6.0 SCO yet... but... just changing your O/S to SCO 6.0 would I think
give you such an improvement in file access with filePro that you would be
VERY happy. I've only done limited testing building indexes and running some
reports. The difference in speed is radical. 5 seconds on 6.0 to 40 seconds
on 5.6, things like that. Can't be specific or scientific here, the
difference in hardware makes my testing unsupportable, but everyone is
saying what I'm saying, the 6.0 filesystem is very much faster, by a LOT,
then the OpenServer 5.6/7.

John