[TriLUG] Lotus Notes

[Mike Johnson]

John Turner wrote:
> Sure. I am willing to make a guess based on a different OS. I just need 
> to know the user base (or concurrent users) and hardware that is being 
> used.
> 
> I have heard number from docs like 300 concurrent users/per server (dual 
> 3G P4) and also from user 6000 users on a quad processor box.

Sorry for the late reply, but I only today got a response from one of 
our Domino admins.  We're rolling out quad xeon 3GHz (hyperthreaded) 
systems with 8GB of RAM to handle 1500 users.  This is on Windows, so 
you might have better luck, but 6000 looks to be aiming a bit high. 
That 1500 user count came from having discussions with IBM who said not 
go go higher than that on a single system (though we evidently have one 
box floating around with between 2000 and 2500 users).

He did say that Domino is much more memory bound than CPU bound.  The 
more RAM, the better.

Hope it helps,
Mike