ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) (04/12/89)
We've got AppleShare running as a file server and printer spooler on a Mac II with 4 megs RAM and a 40 meg internal HD. The machine serves a public lab on campus. Although student staff members do have accounts, the server is used mostly for printer spooling to two LaserWriter IINTs. A question for those of you doing similar things in a university setting: Does AppleShare really use all 4 megs of RAM? Or could I downgrade to 2 megs without suffering a slowdown? System Tools 6.0.2/AShare 2.0.1/LocalTalk cables --- John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787
mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (04/12/89)
In article <2194@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes: > We've got AppleShare running as a file server and printer spooler on a Mac II > with 4 megs RAM and a 40 meg internal HD. The machine serves a public lab > on campus. Although student staff members do have accounts, the server is > used mostly for printer spooling to two LaserWriter IINTs. > > A question for those of you doing similar things in a university setting: > > Does AppleShare really use all 4 megs of RAM? Or could I downgrade to 2 > megs without suffering a slowdown? > > System Tools 6.0.2/AShare 2.0.1/LocalTalk cables > --- > John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) > mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787 Well, here at Ball State, they are running AppleShare file servers and print servers (same machine) with only 1 (yes, one) megabyte of memory. With that setup, you can only spool two printers (in most cases) and the cache that AppleShare sets up for file serving is very small. I have recommended to them that they go up to 2MB. (Oh, they do use a Mac II as a file server, by the way). Performance is not the greatest on a 1MB machine, but it can be done. An Apple Systems Engineer that I talked said that 2MB is a good amount. Any- thing over that amounts to overkill (price to performance is terrible). -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)
chris@accuvax.nwu.edu (Chris Krohn) (04/13/89)
I would agree with Michael in that 2 Mb seems to be plenty. We have experimented here at Northwestern with several types of servers, and found a Mac II with 2 Mb of memory quite able to handle around 30 simultaneous logins and spool 4 laser printers. With 1 Mb, you are limited to 25 simultaneous logins and things do get much slower. Mac Pluses and SE's as servers do not run fast enough in my opinion, except when less than ten workstations are accessing the server at any given time. Christopher Krohn Phone: (312) 491-4109 Northwestern University Internet: CHRIS@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU Academic Computing & Network Services BitNet: CHRIS@NUACC