Hi,

We have a server with
- 4 x Opteron 848 2.2 GHz CPU
- 8 GB RAM
- RAID10 SATA on 3ware 9550SX (PCI-X) controller
with 4 7200rpm disks (16MB cache)
- 1Gb NIC
- RAID1 SCSI320 on LSI Logic with 2 x 15k disks

Also we have
- one FDB for our accounting program (~21 MB).
- Tables inside about 25.000 recs. (very small grow expected)
- 10-15 users.
- average load.

- one FDB for our CRM (~30 MB)
- The main table (wide enough) has about 16.000 recs. (small grow
expected)
- 20 users.
- average load.

- one FDB for our content management program (books/images aso) (~60
MB)
- Tables inside about 40.000 recs (we expect to grow to 200.000
recs).
- 10 users.
- no heavy load.

- other (smaller) FDB.

We have some questions:

1. Does work FB 1.5.3 on a 64-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise?

2. We think to put 2 (or 3) superservers on CPU 1 and 2 and each of
them to have its firebird.conf in its directory listening on ports
3051 and 3052. Then the accounting program will point to SS on CPU 1
and port 3051 and the CRM (and others) to the SS on CPU 2 and port
3052. Will this scenario work? How can we specify the port in the
connection string which now is like SERVER:\FDB\Acc.FDB?

2a. Its worth to do the above thing (ie. to put 2 or more SS
instances) on our hardware?

3. Do you think that the storage layer isn't fast enough for the FDBs?
(we also have xls, doc and some jpg (not many) moving arround. The HDD
time (on Win's performance monitor the Average Queue Length is at
approx. 400 units (ie. on screen scale which is between 0-100 at 2-5
with sparks at 40 and more rarely to 80-100).

TIA,

m. Th.