Re: No of Proceesors for Windows 2000 Server

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> A software vendor has advised us to add another 2
> processors to our Windows 2000 server running SQL Server
> 2000. This would bring us up to the “4GB limit”. Can
> someone please advise me whether windows server 2000 can
> run with four processors? I seem to remember that it can
> only cope with two. Should we be better upgrading the
> Server version to 2003 instead?

It's Windows 2000 Professional that works with only one or two processors.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

What makes you relate the number of processors to the amount of RAM?

Is the bottleneck the amount of processing power available, the amount of
RAM available, network bandwidth or disk drive access?

Andrew


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