Hi Alex,
 
It sounds like quite an old server, so maybe the processor could do with an upgrade too. Why not buy a new server?
It's 27 years since I left Middlesex and getting new kit was never easy in those days, so maybe nothing has changed.
By the way, what's the network like?
 
Regards,
Malcolm.
 
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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk on behalf of Alex Birchall
Sent: Wed 10/03/2010 16:03
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Adding RAM to EPrints server -- will it speed it up?

Hi All,

Our EPrints server currently has 512 MB of RAM.  My question is, How
certain can we be that increasing the RAM to 2GB (the maximum the
motherboard will support) will improve its performance --- it can be
very slow at times?

The reason I ask is that, although I am fairly confident that
dramatically increasing the RAM should improve the performance  of a web
server, I just want to know what others -- with more experience of
EPrints servers than I -- think. 

I have been told by the powers that the money is available for this
upgrade if I am sure that it will have the desired result.  I wouldn't
like to find that increasing the RAM has very little effect on
performance!

Best regards,

Alex



Alexander J Birchall
Library Systems Manager
Middlesex University
The Sheppard Library
The Burroughs
London NW4 4BT

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