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Re: 300 SD users: NT or Unix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Fuoco)
Mon Dec 1 11:07:30 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 1 Dec 1997 07:15:53 -0600
From: Richard Fuoco <FUOCOR@novachem.com> (by way of SAP Moderator <sap-request@realtimeusa.com>)
There shouldnt be any problem distributing the abap execution and memory
requirements across multiple app servers. Whether the database server
can handle the load will depend on the number of database requests these
300 users will generate and how many long running nasty SD reports will
be ran during prime time. It is not as important how many concurrent
users you will have connected at a given time, but, how much work these
300 users will generate. Many vendors will size based on concurrent SAP
users, but, I think that is really hard to do with SAP.
NT does have a limitation on the size of a process and all of its
threads (2gig). I think you can go higher with alphas. So, I guess if
you can properly tune your SAP and Oracle and are able to scale up,
hardware wise, until you get acceptable performance and stay within any
NT limitations, then I cant see why you couldnt. I know this is not
really answering your question, but, I can tell you that unix can handle
it. I hope there is someone out there that is using NT with a
comparable number of dialogue steps and database requests.
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