Hello Aage, Use Classic or SuperClassic to benefit from multi-CPU environment (if one user will run bad query which consumes 100% CPU, others will work without any problem). Since RAM is > database size, the database will be stored completely in file cache (after some time), it means better performance, but stability becomes an issue - ensure you make reliable backups and, of course, use UPS.
Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com). > > > A friend is about to buy a new server, and he has been offered a > Fujitsu TX300S6 with Windows Server 2008 R2. > The offered server has 16GB RAM, and will use RAID-1 or RAID-10 > (controller has 512MB cache) with 15krpm SAS disks. Xeon E5620 (quad > core) with 12MB cache. > The old server has two 2GHz Xeon processors with 512KB cache (nearly > 8 years old), and runs Win2k (Pro, I believe) with Firebird 1.5 > SuperServer. > > If we choose to run Firebird 2.5 64bit I assume SuperClassic would be > a natural choice. Or SuperServer still? > The databases are 1GB and 8GB (light use, mostly blobs with jpg > pictures). 20-ish users (probably about 10 concurrent > users). Sometimes intensive use, but that is almost all > select. Insert/update/delete are seldom done in batch mode. > > What should I choose, what can I expect (of interesting > things). Anything in particular to look out for? > > TiA > Aage J. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
