Re: Domino 6.5.x versus Domino 7.0 performance.

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=3D2><br>&gt;I&nbsp;see&nbsp;in&nbsp;my&nbsp;actual&nbsp;box,&nbsp;an&nbsp;=
SLES&nbsp;8,&nbsp;Domino&nbsp;6.5.1&nbsp;in<br>&gt;a 3 GHz Machine with 1 G=
B RAM and 2 Ultra320 SCSI DISK in RAID1 mode;<br><br>&gt;I&nbsp;see&nbsp;th=
at&nbsp;Domino7&nbsp;are&nbsp;less&nbsp;expensive&nbsp;for&nbsp;RAM&nbsp;an=
d&nbsp;other&nbsp;resources.<br><br>Domino 7 on linux is, according to IBM =
tests, some 5 time faster than Domino 6.5 for "everyday" tasks. This seems =
to be due to a new "porting toolkit" used to compile it on Linux, and now i=
t's performance is similar to the other unix OSes supported.<br><br>Also, u=
sing 7 you can install SLES9, and that means kernel 2.6 with generally bett=
er support for heavy loads, and a better memory use model.<br><br>That said=
, I've seen poorly written Java agents eating up a 4-way xeon with 4GB RAM.=
<br><br>&gt;That&nbsp;hw&nbsp;configuration&nbsp;is&nbsp;good&nbsp;for&nbsp=
;domino&nbsp;7,&nbsp;or&nbsp;is<br>&gt;very&nbsp;small?<br><br>Memory could=
 really use an upgrade I'd say, but it all depends on your tipical use (num=
ber of user, number of agents, quality of the programmers that wrote them..=
 :^) )<br><br>Ciao,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Roberto<br><br></FONT>=