Hi Carl,
FMPro 4.1 is not on a dedicated machine. In addition to hosting ebase, this same PC is
used for our dial-up connection to the net, proxy server and print server for
our main printer, and it is occasionally used as a workstation for misc tasks. With
256 MB RAM it is running VERY stable (it has not crashed once since we installed
the extra RAM 3 weeks ago). We average 4 clients on our peer-peer TCP/IP LAN using
ebase simultaneously. This PC also has hardware RAID 0 or 1 (I get those two
confused). We have static, non-routable IPs on the client PCs. We were thinking of
getting FM Server to help improve stability, but the RAM did the trick (at much
less cost). We also regularly use the "Registry Cleaner" module in the OnTrack Inc.
"FixIt 3.0" utility suite. This also seems to help keep this PC stable.
Let me know if you need other details.
Tom
www.joyofsports.org
Carl Paulsen wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Just a quick question regarding your ebase posting: Are you running FMP
> 4.1 and ebase on a dedicated machine, or is it used for other tasks as
> well? I'm curious about the performance of ebase/FMP on small networks
> without server software, but most folks I work with who are in this
> situation don't have a dedicated "server" machine much less the server
> software.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
> Tom Childers wrote:
> >
> > Hi Phi,
> >
> > We have FileMaker Pro 4.1 running on a central Win98 PC (Celeron 400MHz) which
>hosts ebase. We have up to 4 users on our LAN simultaneously connecting to this
> > ebase host. FileMaker on this machine would crash about every 2 or 3 days. When we
>went from 64MB RAM to 256, the crashes stopped and its running beautifully.
> > So more RAM seems to make FileMaker Pro a lot more stable.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Tom
> > www.joyofsports.org
> >
> > Philip Bowman wrote:
>
> SNIP!
>
> --
> Carl Paulsen
> New Hampshire Rivers Council
> 54 Portsmouth Street
> Concord, NH 03301
> 603-228-6472
> 603-228-0423 Fax
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Tom
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