Ahhh, one of my favorite subjects! The answer is "buy as much memory as you can afford, there is no point of diminishing returns". However, there is a place of "adequacy". You have adequate memory if the following things are true: 1. CPU Busy on memory management is less than 3-4 percent 2. Memory cycles are less than 5-8 per hour 3. Page faulting is less than 30-40 per minute 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. Bill >Encoding: 4 TEXT >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:34:00 PDT >Reply-To: ROGER SMITH <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> >From: ROGER SMITH <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: HP3000/969-400 MEMORY >To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L <[log in to unmask]> > >We purchased this 969 with 512 M. of memory. It was increased to 1024 M. > this past weekend. GLANCE is still saying 'MEMORY DEMAND IS HIGH'. How >much is recommended for 300 users? Any Ideas? > > --- Bill Lancaster Lancaster Consulting (541)926-1542 (phone) (541)917-0807 (fax) [log in to unmask] http://www.proaxis.com/~bill