> > I run a single user license Splus 5.1 under Red Hat Linux (6.2) on a PC
> platform
> > with a i686 chip running at 550 MHz using 256 MRAM with adequate swap space.
> We have a dual-processor 450MHz PIII 512Mb machine that happily handles
> many sessions (and people here are often very heavy users). On the
> other hand, they have the choice of quite a few S-PLUS hosts, and most
> people pick Solaris still.
We have a cluster of similar machines PII/450/512, and most of the
machines
have loads of at least 1 most of the time, often both processors will be
going at it and the load goes over 2.
Make sure you have fast hard disks though - SCSI preferably - or the
machine
may spend more time grinding the disk than crunching numbers. I think
that
SCSI is still a big win over UDMA-66 disks for multi-user and server
applications.
You'll definitely appreciate it if it starts using the swap space...
Baz
Computing Officer
Maths and Stats
Lancaster University
UK
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