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On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:27:45 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>>> Even today, I see people selling "servers" which are really like
>>>>> "desktops". (1.2 GHz Intel Celeron with 512 MB RAM? I don't think
>>>>> so...)
>>>> Depends on what the server is doing. If it's just serving files up,
>>>> that's more than adequate; hell, I used to do file & print on an
>>>> 80286 with 16 MB of memory.
>>> Depends on how many files, of what size, to how many users.
>>
>> Generally not, because file/print is I/O intensive, not CPU intensive.
>
> I was thinking more that you'd need more RAM, not CPU power.
There again, it depends. If you're doing multi-gigabyte file
distribution for system imaging, there isn't enough RAM available to
cache the file sizes we're talking about, so it's better to fully
optimize the I/O channels from end to end.
Jim
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