NT is your bottleneck !

Sorry for the strong way of saying, but scalability is not the strong point
for NT, so adding processors is not closer to linear (ideal) performance
growth.

I am not sure, but NT licensing for SMP systems and the NT system itself
may not be worth the performance gain.

If I were you I would add memory and try to distribute I/O through many
disk/tapes controllers. Probably results will be a lot better than just
adding another CPU.

good luck,

Rodrigo

>We are about to spec out a new ADSM server running NT on the Intel platfor
>We are interested in opinions of what are the main bottlenecks for ADSM
>performance. For instance, would adding multiple processors increase
>performance (especially ADSM DB) or is memory more important. Thanks in
>advance.
>Seth Forgosh