Can i run FMP on a FMS safely?

[nightdesigns]

I'm setting up a script to run every x mintues. Unfortunatly, the only computer that I can dedicate the running of the script to is my server. Will i be asking for it if i'm running FMP on my FM server? The script will run every 10-15 mintues, doing a check mail, parsing information, etc. It's procesor intensive for maybe 15 seconds each time it does the check mail (loads in about 20 e-mails, and deals with the information in the accordingly). The most other clients that will be logged in via the network are 3, and all are on a LAN.

Thanks

-j

[LiveOak]

If I understand your question correctly, you want to know if you can run BOTH FM Server version and FM Client version on your FM server machine at the same time. The answer is no, your performance and stability will go to zip. Run the periodic script on a client machine.

-bd

[nightdesigns]

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Originally posted by LiveOak:

If I understand your question correctly, you want to know if you can run BOTH FM Server version and FM Client version on your FM server machine at the same time. The answer is no, your performance and stability will go to zip. Run the periodic script on a client machine.

-bd

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Hm... not exactly the answer i wanted to hear. I wonder how Fm would do on my p200mmx machine =)

Thanks.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Pay attention to what Live Oak says here. Don't screw around with this.

Old Advance Man

[Anatoli]

It will run OK on good Windows machine with NT memory management. And your 200MHz is also more than enough for FM client.

Not on standard Mac, because of the background tasks problem.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

See the FM Server Best Practices White paper. Do not run FileMAker Pro at the same time as FileMAker Server on the same machine.

Old Advance Man

[nightdesigns]

Thanks everyone. I guess i'll have to run it on a client until i can piece together a computer to be a client. What should my minimum specs be for a FM computer. Will probably be running win ME since it's around. I'd say my scripts are a bit processor intensive. They read in e-mail, parse them, and put all the fields into their approporiate spots. Talking 10-15 filelds per e-mail, a reply is usually sent out per e-mail recienved (new record, set 20 fields, etc), and then sent. Figuring 20 e-mail's a day right now, around 100/day in the months to come. Thanks.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Pentium II with 128 MB RAM. Clock speed of at least 200MHz. Hard drive 10 GB. Keep at least 1 GB free at all times. THat allows FMP 5.5 to work better.

I'd try to use W2K PE if I could. In which case run RAM to 256MB.

Set FMP cache to 8192 KB.

HTH

Old Advance Man