How do you determine the amount of RAM needed? Is there a benefit from more than 64gb of RAM?
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "ssilouky" <bill.simpson@...> wrote: > > We are trying to determine the best platform for Firebird SQL 2.5.2. Our > firebird databases are 40-60gb in size and are being accessed by dbase plus > 2.6.2 programs. Currently we are running on Windows 2003 Server with dual > Intel XEON E5430 quad-core processors and 8gb RAM. This server is being > accessed with Windows Remote Desktop. We are in the process of replacing this > server with a new server using 2 Intel XEON E5-2640 processors and 16gb of > RAM. We are trying to determine whether we should go with Windows or Linux. > We also want to consider client/server versus the current model we are using. > We would use Intel I7-3770K processors with 8gb of ram for workstations. >
