Re: Overloaded Server Question

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It sounds like your setup is pretty close to mine. SBS2003 SP1 (exchange
SP2), 1x2.8 Xeon, 1Gb RAM, 3x72Gb SCSI RAID5
It also runs Solomon, SQL 2000, Exchange,DNS,WINS,DHCP, and is the main file
share for a company of 60+ people.

Main Office has 20 People (all use Outlook, files, 10-12 use Solomon), we
have a Windows 2000 Terminal Server. The main SBS is also used foe all
remote sales people to use Outlook using RCP over HTTP. General user load at
any time is around 38-40 people. It still responds well and I have not seen
or heard of any performance issues. We have all of the systems in the main
office on a Gigabit network.

p.s. the exchange store is at 18Gb at the moment (private) and around 1.5Gb
(public)

Kevin Dickson


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>>>>I currently have SBS2K3 running on a dual xeon 3.0 with 2GB RAM.
>>>>
>>>> I am using the server for the following:
>>>>
>>>> DNS & DHCP
>>>> Exchange
>>>
>>> How big are your stores?
>>
>> mad.exe and store.exe are each over 300kb in memory
>
> Sorry, I actually meant the size of the files in the MDBDATA directory -
> the public and private Exchange stores.
>
>>>> SQL Server
>>>
>>> What kind of throughput i.e. transactions/hour are you doing?
>>
>> Not sure how to tell?
>
> OK, how much memory is sqlservr.exe using? I've got a box with 2GB RAM
> and sqlservr.exe using currently using around 300MB of that.
>
>>>> Terminal Server (currently have 2 users, need to upgrade to 10)
>>>
>>> ...err? Does this mean you have applications for these users installed
>>> on your SBS?
>>
>> Yes my main application is Microsoft Solomon, so all my users are logged
>> in most of the day.
>
> Via terminal services? Or do they have a client on their own PC?
>
>>> BTW SBS2003 doesn't allow application mode TS, so you're limited to 2 TS
>>> sessions. Looks like you're going to need a separate TS.
>
> A new TS sounds like a good idea to me...
>
> Jim
>


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