Sorry for hijacking the thread somewhat but i have a quick question:

I use the community OX for a few users just running off an 80gig sata
hdd, 512mb ram. How many users can i expect to be able to have
functioning reasonably on such a server?..


kind regards
~Evan

Peter Kluth wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> we are using OX commercial version on a FSC server (Primergy series).
>
> Short to our history:
> We started june 2003 (with SLOX 4) with only 512 MB RAM but dual
> motherboard with 2 x XEON 1.8 GHz and 3 x 36 GB HD 10K rpm as RAID-5
> (SCSI). We decided to use ONLY SCSI-drives in all our server cause all of
> them running 24 hours a day and 7 days a week - minimum 5 years. We are
> satisfied with that strategy cause we only have few hardware errors a year
> (and it doesn´t matter if a hd fails in a RAID-system).
>
> As we startet with 25 user the system performance was ok. With 50 user the
> system began to swap and as we reached 75 user I decided to upgrade the
> system up to 2.5 GB. Now we have nearly 100 User and an average
> mail-traffic of 1.2 GB +/- 100 MB a month (for all of our user) and system
> is NOT swapping. We are using the complete groupware accept the forum.
>
> So I would prefer the first option (2 GB RAM & SCSI HDs) but only with
> redundant CPU, power and RAID-1 or RAID-5 hd system ...
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Kluth
> Network- and system-administration
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