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In article <2194@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
> We've got AppleShare running as a file server and printer spooler on a Mac II
> with 4 megs RAM and a 40 meg internal HD.  The machine serves a public lab
> on campus.  Although student staff members do have accounts, the server is
> used mostly for printer spooling to two LaserWriter IINTs.
> 
> A question for those of you doing similar things in a university setting:
> 
> Does AppleShare really use all 4 megs of RAM?  Or could I downgrade to 2
> megs without suffering a slowdown?
> 
> System Tools 6.0.2/AShare 2.0.1/LocalTalk cables
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> John O'Malley           / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
> mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

Well, here at Ball State, they are running AppleShare file servers and
print servers (same machine) with only 1 (yes, one) megabyte of memory.
With that setup, you can only spool two printers (in most cases) and the
cache that AppleShare sets up for file serving is very small.  I have
recommended to them that they go up to 2MB.  (Oh, they do use a Mac II as
a file server, by the way).  Performance is not the greatest on a 1MB machine,
but it can be done.

An Apple Systems Engineer that I talked said that 2MB is a good amount.  Any-
thing over that amounts to overkill (price to performance is terrible).

-Michael


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