>we have a pentium 550 with 384M ram and 20G Raid 5 system. only NT 4,
>imail and sql 7 are running on this machine. we have about 40,000 users
>in one domain.
384 is on the lowside, imo. I wouldn't run with less than 512, and give it
all to SQL.
Do you have 64 or 128 megs of cache on the RAID controller? hardware cache
can help a lot
Do you have SQL logging running one a separate disk channel (not the RAID
controller)?
The SQL box is running just the Imail database or other stuff?
>btw, the reason for the upgrade is that our web msg stops working with a
>70mb access database.
Consider yourself lucky to have gotten this far with Access and 40K records
and high rate of simulatneous access.
>i am not sure that has anything to do with the amount of users.
Well, it surely can depend on how many users are logging in simultaneously,
and Imail is querying the database for the user records.
Can you see whether the delay is in the Imail box or SQL box?
Len
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