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just bought a new dell server for my filemaker server 10 install. I found out that 1 gig of memory is not enough to keep 10 operating at peak ( using windows 2008 server)

Couldn't open files/ console/ transmit data throughout network-- this surprised me!

I put four extra gig of ram in my system and it flew.

Filemaker seems to be a memory hog?

Would anyone like to share their hardware experiences? special settings to make filemaker more managible on less memory within a server envirnment?

Do people like the apple X-serve better to host filemaker server 10?

not sure what to recommend to my future clients? help?

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Filemaker server on PC only uses 2 gigs per processor, and splits the tasks amongst processors. But 1 Gig is just not enough for the Server OS and Filemaker server.

As for the apple server solution, if you are authenticating on a Windows domain controller and have embedded that into your Filemaker apps then I would stay away from MAC OSX. If you are using an Open Domain Authentication then the Apple OSX will not only work well it will beat the socks off of a comparable windows box.

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MacBook Pro, 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM...works very well!

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You need sufficient RAM to run FileMaker Server properly, in addition to a good drive system, and a properly function network. 4GB or more RAM will help, as will having a RAID 10 drive system for your database. It's hard to give exact recommendations without knowing the size of your database, your network, the DB's design (is indexing setup properly, how are you tables setup, etc.).

BTW, 4GB of ECC RAM today is less than $200. If you were using an older version of FMServer and older Windows Server you could get away with less, but not with WS 2008 and FMS 10 :)

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