Vincent Bartro wrote:
>
> Hi Randolph,
>
> I got this also from Remedy. But I wonder what exactly whould happen to a customer
> that would really have installed NT 4 on such a workstation, and who would then try to
> run Remedy Web or ARuser, along with - let's say - Power point, Visio and Word... Oh.. I
> forgot Netscape of course...
> Or IE and Outlook...

As someone who has done just that, I can say it isn't much fun. The system spends much of
it's time swapping and thrashing the hard disc, and whilst Remedy User runs quite nicely,
if you start anything else at the same time, the system starts hitting swap.

The CPU speed isn't important. I'm on a Pentium 233 here; it works quite fast enough for
my needs. What is important is RAM; I'd say 128 MB minimum, 256 MB preferred.

RAM these days is dirt-cheap; I think it is worth loading a machine up with RAM just to
save you having to open it up later and install more. And these days RAM is the main
limiting factor for work machines; very few people run heavy CPU-dependant apps on a
regular basis.

As a point to note, Remedy software isn't all that much of a resource-hog. In normal
operations, Remedy User or Remedy Web Java client doesn't take much CPU except at
startup, doesn't use all that much RAM by modern standards, and certainly doesn't
use much network bandwidth at all.

--
Dan Holdsworth PhD
Remedy A. R. Sysadmin, Manchester Computing
daniel.r.holdsworth@man.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 27 50606

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