Greg :
I've got about five accounts running B7331 SP 11.3 with NT Terminal Server
and SQL7.
First, I suppose that you don't plan to run 97 simultaneous OneWorld users
on a single
server with 1 Gb RAM Don't you? Have you been checking the memory
consumption on the
Terminal Server while your users get their memory errors?
B7331 specs are approximately as follows : 30 to 60 Mb RAM per concurrent
user, 10 to 20
concurrent users per CPU. The "concurrent" word is very important! Also
remember that NT
Terminal Server doesn't address more than 2 Gb RAM!
RAM and CPU usage strongly depend on what you run and where you run it (W
environments vs.
standard environments, what APPL do users run, and if UBEs run locally or on
the Enterprise).
For example P0411 is terrible!
According to my experience, WTS 2000 is noticeably stabler and more
performant than NT Terminal
Server, furthermore : WTS 2000 can address up to 4 Gb (Server) or 8 Gb
(Advanced Server) RAM on
a single box; and processor scalability behaves on a more linearly way than
NT 4.0
Are you using Citrix? Its Load Balancing capabilities would be a nice plus!
If I were you, I would buy at least 2 servers, 4 CPUs, 4 Gb RAM each,
running W2000 Server
with Terminal Servers + recommended Citrix for W2K. That would provide a
minimal level
of redundancy support.
Each of these servers can easily support 50 concurrent users, and if one of
the servers
fails, the other may support 80-100 users (though quite sluggish) until the
failing box
is replaced.
Finally, many memory errors (satanic Dr.Watson) are not MS faults, but are
due to JDE
code that tries to remove NULL pointers, clears forbidden structs, etc.
I've had a couple of B7332 (not B7331) SP 11.3 installations that decreased
their Watson's
notoriously after applying SP 15.1; but I neved tried it on B7331.
Sebastian Sajaroff
B7321 to Xe, NT/W2K/JAS/SQL/Citrix/Interop
[email protected]
B7321 to Xe, NT/W2K/SQL
JAS, Interoperability
MCDBA,MCP+I,MCSE,Citrix Admin
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Grupo ASSA - Application Software SA
