[THIN] Re: Servers for PS 4.0

  • From: Bob <bobmails@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:57:08 -0400

I have plenty of experience with the 2850's and they make nice little app
servers.  I find when I bump them up to 4GB of RAM that it virtually
eliminates paging to disk.  As far as number of users, it depends on how
dirty your front end and other apps are.  I find that big data juggling from
a front end can run into some disk IO issues.

If you're buying new servers, Dell is coming out with a new version, the
2950.  Basically a 2850 tweaked for the new dual-core chips and with a
wicked fast bus.  sweet



On 6/29/06, Beckett, William (Bill) <bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

 Ahh interesting to get another perspective. You do notice some
performance degradation when you hit 40 users? We run the usual office apps,
IE and the front end into our DB server.

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*From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
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*Sent:* Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:04 PM
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*Subject:* [THIN] Re: Servers for PS 4.0



It really depends on what you're running. We use mostly Office and IE, but
run 99% of our apps in Citrix. We average 20-25 users per server. On 10
minute sample intervals from 8:00am to 5:00pm today we had an average proc
utilization of <20% and peaked at about 40%. Average memory utilization was
55% and peaked at 62%. These are dual 3.x 2850s with 4GB RAM.



From what I've tested, we can get about 40 people on a server before I
notice performance degradation in a session.



Good luck!

Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
w: 319.859.3543
c: 319.290.5687
http://www.lsiowa.org



-----Original Message-----
*From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
Behalf Of *Beckett, William (Bill)
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:56 PM
*To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [THIN] Servers for PS 4.0



For anyone running Dells, specifically the 2850's…



Do you find that the dual procs with decent memory (4GB) runs Presentation
Server 4.0 well? User load 50-60 users on one box. We have older 6450
poweredge units that have quad processors and I'm a little concerned about
dropping down to dual. Do the 2850's do the job just fine?

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