It really depends on how your users are using it, how heavily do they use it, any forms or scripting, attachment traffic etc. etc. But for the amount of users you talk about you should be just fine.
We use Compaq ML570s with quad PIII700s with 2GB of RAM as dedicated mailbox servers and I was able to load up to 2500 users on one without any issues (although we try to keep it around 1400 users normally). On another note, the "M$" joke is so old, so lame, and so boring. S. -----Original Message----- From: Olds, Dominic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Server memory? Does anyone have an idea of miminum memory requirements for exchange servers based on number of mailboxes etc? I have read the paper from M$ on this and can only find reference to monitoring swapfile usage. I only have one server now (5.5 sp4 on win2K) but we have just taken over another company thus giving me an extra 200 mailboxes. My server is a HP dual Xeon 700, 1 gig of RAM and plenty of disk (90 gig on raid 5) SHould this cope OK with 6 or 7 hunderd users or should I get another server to remove some of the load? Ideally, if I can make this one box do it all (except IMS which is relayed from an IIS machine in the DMZ) I would prefer this option even if it means adding memory. Is there a "rule of thumb amount" of memory per mailbox i should be looking to have? Thanks Dominic. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
