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by jmiker

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I am an outside consultant to a firm that has a large (100+)work stations on a pier to pier network. They use a vpn tunnel to access a large data base and have dsl from a local provider. My question concerns the resources on these individual pcs.The resources are always low. These pcs are always on the net, always sending and receiving e-mail and always conected to the data base. Short of a complete shut down are there any suggestions as to maintain a higher level of availiable resources?

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by james r linn

The ultimate answer is to migrate away from a Win 9X/Me infrastructure to one based on the NT kernel(NT/2000/XP).

The problem occurs when memory gets fragmented. The 9X kernel doesn't always release the memory properly when an application shuts down.

You could spend time and energy trying to reduce the number of apps/services running, but this won't gain you much in the long term.

James

by xiaxiong

My first instinct would be to put in a W2K Server. That would free up a lot of the client resources involved in browsing and validation. Likewise this would better address some organizational issues they may have, such as security and access. Also, I don't know what kind of VPN you are using, but I imagine 100+ PC's using PPTP or something like it that would not be an efficient use of resources. In short, get a server!

HTH...

by btomasetti

I agree that you should really not ahve more than ten to fifteen machines in a work group before moving to a domain based newtwork. however there may be a way to increase the system resources on the individual computers. if the computers are runningwin 98 or ME. got to the run box trpe MSCONFIG. this will opent he system configuration utility. select the startup tab on the top right and remove the check marckds for any programs do do not need to be loaded into memory at startup. this will freeup some resources and the percentages should increase. I would definitely consider getting a server in place to handle the network traffic.

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