In philosophy I agree, memory is very good thing. However, this server has been in production since 9/99, never had a problem, nothing has changed, not even the number of users. The problem began when the system decided to jumped into the future 11 years. To answer your questions: as I noted...
Consider the following on a Novell Netware 4.11 server w/ 128meg Ram runing on a 350Mhz PII w/ a 8 gig SYS: volume and a 6 gig second volume. There is also a Netware 5.0 and 4.10 Server on the wire.
From the General Information Screen.
Dirty Cache BUffers 377
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You don't want to set your ethernet speed, you want to set your NIC speed. I don't know what you have for a NIC but most have a DOS based utility that allows you set certain parameters such as IRQ, base memory and auto sensing. Look for this disk, boot from a vanilla DOS disk and run setup...
I ran a small fpd26 compiled utility from a 4.11 server on w2k box(P3, 1gig, 256meg). Load time was about 5 seconds. Run time was about 30 secs. I ran the same uitlity from a w98 box(PII, 350, 128) load time was again about 5 secs run time was about 18 seconds. I will say I notice a...
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