win2000 prof. & fm server

[belgiumbruno]

Hi everyone,

I wonder if a win 2000 prof. (not 2000 server) machine

(2ghz - good hd - 512ram) is good enough to run fm server for 25 users.

Although fm says that win pro is good for 10 users, I understand that Mr. Anatoli has a better performance with a win pro version.

Am I right or better start with win2k server

greetings

[Kurt Knippel]

I think that Win2000 Prof will be good enough, unless it is distinctly different from the Server version. You really do not need or want the "server" features that Win2k Server provides anyway, as Filemaker Server provides all the server features that are needed for serving Filemaker databases.

Couple of other things: do not get a "good hd", get a GREAT one, and make is FAST. The processor speed will make a difference but nothing compared to the fast, high quality harddrive. 512 RAM is way overkill, and 90% of it is wasted on Filemaker Server. Filemaker serves DBs from the harddrive, not RAM so it only needs like 48MB (although Win2k probably needs another 128 to run).

[belgiumbruno]

Captkurt thanks for your quick reply.

You already helped me with the start of terminal server &

fmserver configuration. Now I am on the good way.

I put fmserver on a seperate win2k pc and it works ok.

But what is good and what is best ??

I try to find this answers in the performance statistics in

the fm admin.

Network kb/sec: What is this? What is good - best?

disk kb/sec: What is this? What is good - best?

transactions: What is this? What is good - best?

I already checked the 5-star performance statistics

from anatoli.

thanx

[Anatoli]

We are running mentioned high numbers from W2K Pro, not server.

You can also increase background tasks, so it will allocate more cycles to FM service.

All statistics depend on load and then on HW. No requests yield 0 numbers.

Network should be around 1000K, Disk above 1000K, Transactions -- it really depends on users and design. 1000 and above is fast enough.

Fast server should do search in instant.

We are getting those high numbers in night run from fast Script Machine.