performance bottleneck?

how many users can a box with 8 processors and 32 GB RAM with sql
server 2000 on windows server 2003 handle effectively?
my web server with iis 6.0 on windows server 2003 has 4 processors and
8 GB RAM.
i have approx. 5000 active users - could give the connections in a few
days.
should i add more RAM/processing power on the web server to improve
performance?
or is it the bandwidth?
thanks
mdgandhi"mdGandhi" <gandhimanisha@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> how many users can a box with 8 processors and 32 GB RAM with sql
> server 2000 on windows server 2003 handle effectively?
> my web server with iis 6.0 on windows server 2003 has 4 processors and
> 8 GB RAM.
> i have approx. 5000 active users - could give the connections in a few
> days.
> should i add more RAM/processing power on the web server to improve
> performance?
> or is it the bandwidth?
> thanks
> mdgandhi
>
1 user
Or 50,0000.
Honestly, there's not enough information here to really give an answer.
For example, I had a 6 year old box (quad Xeon 700Mhz CPU) handling millions
of transactions an hour and probably could have handled another 30% in
traffic. So your box would be way overkill for that.
On the other hand I had a 4 year old box (dual Xeon CPU) handling a few
thousand transactions an hour that was overwhelmeed as it was. The
difference, the nature of the transactions.
That said, what you describe is a fairly beefy box. But it really depends
on what the users are doing.
Generally, focus on getting your queries to be effecient and to return no
more information than necessary. Then you can focus on bottlenecks after
taht.
I note for example you don't mention the disk subsystem at all. This can
have a HUGE impact on performance, especially if you're at all disk I/O
intensive.
Google around, there's a few books out there for calculating SQL Server
capacities. They may help you.
Greg Moore
SQL Server DBA Consulting
sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com|||The short answer is that there is no simple rule for determining how
many users a configuration can handle because it depends on the
specific work being performed. The best approach is to analyze the
current bottlenecks by analyzing how the machine runs now. Performance
Monitor is your friend.
Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT
On 26 Feb 2007 05:49:58 -0800, "mdGandhi" <gandhimanisha@.gmail.com>
wrote:

>how many users can a box with 8 processors and 32 GB RAM with sql
>server 2000 on windows server 2003 handle effectively?
>my web server with iis 6.0 on windows server 2003 has 4 processors and
>8 GB RAM.
>i have approx. 5000 active users - could give the connections in a few
>days.
>should i add more RAM/processing power on the web server to improve
>performance?
>or is it the bandwidth?
>thanks
>mdgandhi