Topic: Great Forum and Support!!

[Palani]

First off, I would like to say that there is great support here. Everybody is very helpful towards each other. Being a Linux newbie the answeres I received from my questions have been very helpful to me. I am currently running 5.5 on a PII 266 with 128MB RAM and a 6GIG hard drive. I have noticed that the web interface runs slow to me. Would I notice a difference in speed if I install 5.5 on a PIII 733 or PIII with 256 or 512MB RAM?

I have a small 4 computer LAN here in my home. I am the only one who use all my computers.

I know what beta is. But  can somebody please tell me the difference between beta and dev versions of SME?


Thanks
Palani

[D. Perkins]

I second that.  I'm new to Linux and still on the learning curve, these fora have been a great help.

Regarding the web interface:  I have 5.5 installed on a P133/80Mb/2Gb system and the web interface is slow taking 40s to bring up the initial menu and then roughly about 8 seconds per page.

I plan to use my 5.5 to host a database (Firebird) and use CVS so I've bought an old Compaq Proliant ML 330e, PIII 733Mhz, 256Mb.26Gb system.  I'm hoping that this will give the sever manager pages a bit more omph!

[Roger]

Just a short note...when you say 'web interface' I assume you mean the server manager. My experience is that it is generally slow (not sure why) and that you should not base your performance expectations on that. I have a P133/64M RAM system with about 10,000 book entries in an MySQL database with Apache serving a website using PHP. It works more than well enough for development testing purposes. So faster is better but don't do the comparison based on the server manager.
Roger.D. Perkins wrote:
>
> I second that.  I'm new to Linux and still on the learning
> curve, these fora have been a great help.
>
> Regarding the web interface:  I have 5.5 installed on a
> P133/80Mb/2Gb system and the web interface is slow taking 40s
> to bring up the initial menu and then roughly about 8 seconds
> per page.
>
> I plan to use my 5.5 to host a database (Firebird) and use
> CVS so I've bought an old Compaq Proliant ML 330e, PIII
> 733Mhz, 256Mb.26Gb system.  I'm hoping that this will give
> the sever manager pages a bit more omph!

[D. Perkins]

> Just a short note...when you say 'web interface' I assume you
> mean the server manager. My experience is that it is
> generally slow (not sure why) and that you should not base
> your performance expectations on that. I have a P133/64M RAM
> system with about 10,000 book entries in an MySQL database
> with Apache serving a website using PHP. It works more than
> well enough for development testing purposes. So faster is
> better but don't do the comparison based on the server manager.

Yep, I meant the server manager.  

My P133 seems to work OK, but I don't want to start running a number of Firebird databases, CVS and a few websites only to find it's starting to struggle a few months down the line.  I thought it best to upgrade to some hardware that should see me ok for a few years.

[Charlie Brady]

Palani wrote:

> I know what beta is. But  can somebody please tell me the
> difference between beta and dev versions of SME?

dev covers both beta and alpha, whichever is currently available. The URL doesn't need to change if we use dev, and that makes it easier for our mirror sites.

Charlie

[steve]

I went from a Pentium 200mhz to a P-II 400mhz and saw a HUGE difference in the performance of my SME.
The web-adminstration loads about 10x faster
configs are applied 10x faster
even my Internet connection sped up
15.mbps is alot to handle for a little P200!!!!!

[steve]

whoops
meant 1.5 mbps
anyway, YES, you will see an increase in the performance of your sme in the areas you mentioned

[Bob King]

I administer several Small Business networks (5-10 workstations) that have SME 5.1.2 running on P200, 64Mb and 3 to 30Gb HDD. They all use the SME box as GateWay, firewall, DHCP server, email server with AV MailGate virus scaning and hosting a small web site but no file serving or webmail. These machines have been operating for at least a year each with no problems at all.