SF -
According to the Epicor tuning document, you should allow about 4 appservers/user for 4GB or less of RAM....so I'd start out with 10 Servers (total number of Office and MES users / 4) - this is for 4GL Users only. So for you I just added one to your 39 to make 40.
For the DB blocks you need to know first what your DB block size is (either 4K or 8K) once you have this then you need to know how many MB = 10,000 blocks and that's the following:
4K block size = 42.2 MB
8K block size = 83.8 MB
Now actually determining how much to allocate...this is where it gets a little gray. Epicor's document says you should allocate ½ to ¾ of the .d1 size, but in the example they give they are actually taking the .d1 size and multiplying it by 3 so normally what I do is try to get it close to the .d1 size and then go from there. In your case you may be a little strapped for resources with 4GB of RAM, but you can still manage at least 2.5 or so.
So calculating your # of Blocks is easy:
(2,500,000,000 / 42,000,000) x 10,000 = 590,000 4K blocks
(2,500,000,000/ 83,300,000) x 10,000 = 300,000 8K blocks
Obviously, this may sound extreme and it probably is, but I would start small and work my way up.
I am not familiar enough with the D&L process so I don't know the answer to your -B parameter.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Jason Claggett
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
MCP #3856159
2W Technologies, LLC
312.533.4033 x8039
jason@...
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:46 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Performance Parameters
Can somebody suggest how many App Servers I should run and how much
memory I should dedicate to Vantage:
Server:
Windows 2003 Server Quad 3.2 Xeon w/ 4GIGS of Memory.
Vantage:
21 User Licenses
18 MES Licenses
Progress Database is apx. 2.2GB
I'd like to know how many BLOCKS I should dedicate to the DB buffer,
currently I have 20000, and my agent settings for the mfgsys803 is 1,5,15.
Also, if anybody is familiar with the Dump and Load process of the
progress database, what would be a good parameter for the -B option?
Thanks,
--SF
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According to the Epicor tuning document, you should allow about 4 appservers/user for 4GB or less of RAM....so I'd start out with 10 Servers (total number of Office and MES users / 4) - this is for 4GL Users only. So for you I just added one to your 39 to make 40.
For the DB blocks you need to know first what your DB block size is (either 4K or 8K) once you have this then you need to know how many MB = 10,000 blocks and that's the following:
4K block size = 42.2 MB
8K block size = 83.8 MB
Now actually determining how much to allocate...this is where it gets a little gray. Epicor's document says you should allocate ½ to ¾ of the .d1 size, but in the example they give they are actually taking the .d1 size and multiplying it by 3 so normally what I do is try to get it close to the .d1 size and then go from there. In your case you may be a little strapped for resources with 4GB of RAM, but you can still manage at least 2.5 or so.
So calculating your # of Blocks is easy:
(2,500,000,000 / 42,000,000) x 10,000 = 590,000 4K blocks
(2,500,000,000/ 83,300,000) x 10,000 = 300,000 8K blocks
Obviously, this may sound extreme and it probably is, but I would start small and work my way up.
I am not familiar enough with the D&L process so I don't know the answer to your -B parameter.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Jason Claggett
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
MCP #3856159
2W Technologies, LLC
312.533.4033 x8039
jason@...
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sanfranc415
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:46 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Performance Parameters
Can somebody suggest how many App Servers I should run and how much
memory I should dedicate to Vantage:
Server:
Windows 2003 Server Quad 3.2 Xeon w/ 4GIGS of Memory.
Vantage:
21 User Licenses
18 MES Licenses
Progress Database is apx. 2.2GB
I'd like to know how many BLOCKS I should dedicate to the DB buffer,
currently I have 20000, and my agent settings for the mfgsys803 is 1,5,15.
Also, if anybody is familiar with the Dump and Load process of the
progress database, what would be a good parameter for the -B option?
Thanks,
--SF
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