A purely informational "piece of string" type request I'm afraid.
We are currently thinking of purchasing an AlphaServer 2000 4/233
with 2/3 processor cards and 256Mb of RAM to act as a departmental
server. What would be useful (to clear any doubts about performance,
etc) would be to share the experiences that others have had with
similarly configured systems.
Things like :
1) How many interactive users does it support (roughly) ?
2) What type of work load has it - all interactive, purely batch based, etc ?
3) Bottlenecks - disk IO, etc ?
4) Using RAID worthwhile - disk stripping ?
5) Anything else relevant (especially from an academic environment) ?
We have a reasonably clear idea about what we expect from the system
but what is the reality ? I will summarise the responses, honest.
Many TIA,
-Will Flett
Computer Science Department | mail: W.Flett_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Royal Holloway, University of London | talk: +44 1784 443428 (direct)
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England | fax: +44 1784 443420
Received on Tue Jul 04 1995 - 19:51:31 NZST