Hardware setup for server and unlimited

[seanc]

Hi all,

I have 2 machines that I need to setup, one with Server and one with unlimited. One machine is a relatively old P3 500M, the other is a new P4C 1.7G. Both have 512M and the same type of hard drive.

My question is, am I right in assuming that unlimited would best be installed on the P4? I'm assuming that server is more disk than processor intensive, but I'd like confirmation.

I do plan to upgrade the old clunker, but not for a while if I can avoid it.

Cheers,

Sean.

[Addam]

You should be fine with that setup.

I have a P3 550 running Lotus Notes Server (database & WEB), FileMaker Pro 5 Unlimited (Custom Web Publishing) and FMP Server. It's pretty solid. It get's kind of slow at times, but it's holding up.

You shouldn't have any major problems.

~Addam~

[seanc]

You're running Unlimited and Server on the same box?

I'm surprised your finding that stable. I tried that once (as an experiment only) just to see how it would go and performance was abysmal. And prone to crashing.

Given my 2 choices. the question is, which box for which application?

Cheers,

Sean.

[Addam]

Yup!

It's pretty solid! You just have to configure NT correctly for performance. If you tell it to gove more processing power & momory to upfront applications and not the background apps, it works like a charm.

I would use the P4 for the Unlimited and the P3 for the server. The Unlimited application will need most of the processing power.

This is what I found to be true.

~Addam~