OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[John Esak]

We wanted to the very same thing. Our 6.0 SCO system and new server are
right there. We've x'ferred the data (but I mean just simple ftp the data,
you don't need to use filePro xfer... unless it *is* your way of moving the
files...)

Anyway, we are waiting on a driver for a muli-modem board... but I'm
actually glad we have just been testing so far... since the SYSTEM problem
Ken mentioned a while back is there ever-looming as a huge hangup. (SYSTEM
calls to the shell are calling .../*95*/something/shell  instead of just
plain /bin/sh... and if you *need* regular /bin/sh, you are getting a
kornish shell... which may/will break your scripts.)

Anyway, one of those wait until the bugs ar flecked out and then upgrade to
a known working 6.0 filePro.

I must say, the filePro works without problem seemingly. We have probably
just not tested any of our serious SYSTEM script  type things yet. Will be
doing that soon.

John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Luurs [mailto:doug at borisch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: john at valar.com; Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: OT: High End SCO System for Filepro
>
>
> Acutally .. I booboo'd .. They are SCSI in a RAID (99% Sure its RAID-5).
>
> I think that is what I am going to do.  Order a backup server,  and
> configure
> It with SCO 6, etc.  Then Xfer the data over, and let it fly.
>
> Thanks for all the Ideas on and off list.
>
> Doug
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> > Of John Esak
> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:04 PM
> > To: Fplist (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: OT: High End SCO System for Filepro
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > 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
> >
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