> I am building a new Firebird server and am rethinking my plan to load
> Linux as my network admins prefer Win NT/2K. I am avoiding XP for
> the moment until the .gdb problem is fixed. I would appreciate any
> feedback insight etc... on my options here. I feel that Linux is the
> best choice for uptime and performance, but I have not seen any
> benchmarks to verify this.

Given the Forced Write problem in Windows, the Linux machin
almost has to be quicker, but I have SUSE7.3 running on an
older AMD machine ( K6-2-233 <g> ), and it's responce is as
fast as my 700Mhz Athlon runing W2k. Firebird only slows
down when I hit it with a lonnng query, in which case the
WIndows machine comes back first, but only by 10% or so.

> My config:
>
> AMD 1.6 Ghz
> 1 GB RAM
> 2 40 GB HD's
> 10/100 NIC etc.....

Nice spec - not sure all the RAM will be used, but better
investment than an Intel processor .

> Should I go Linux ( RH 7.2 / SUSE 7.3) or Win NT or Win2K?

SUSE 7.3 and Firebird both installed from the box. I just
had to enable the FTP server, and the machin is both data
and file server.

> The machine will become a primary machine replacing a dual Celeron
> 500 w/384 MB RAM running RedHat 6.2 and Interbase 4.0. I have about
> 20 (soon to be almost 40) users hitting it all day long for about 2
> yrs.

I have anything up to 50 active connections running without
a problem onto NT4 boxes, we are just starting to test to
see the performance difference with a Linux server, so we
can convice the customers.

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services