On 26 Aug 96 at 11:47, Bill Lancaster wrote about "HP3000/969-400 MEMORY":
 
 
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> If *all* of these things are true, you have "adequate" memory.  As a general
> rule of thumb, though,
> I would think that 1024 megabytes would be enough for 300 users.
>
 
Maybe.  Try Cognos Powerhouse with the Interbase RDBMS.  For our admittedly
large academic administration management s/w, we are looking at 7-10Mb per user
ie worst case for 150 users is 1.5Gb!!  Plus the processor power to get through
all that code. An early release of the s/w brought a DEC 8400 with 4 cpu's and
8Gb memory to its knees with a simulated load of 100 users.
 
All depends on the job mix and the efficiency of the underlying database
engines.
 
Jeff D
 
PS I'm not sure we can afford a box big enough to run the s/w!
 
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