Speccing out Mac Mini to run Servoy Server

Classic Servoy
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Hi all,

We are wapping out an old Mac Pro tower with a Mac mini to save space in the rack. When speccing out the Mini, what is the optimal config for running Servoy?
Dual-core i7 at 2.7Ghz or
Quad-core i7 running at 2.0Ghz

We are on Servoy 6.0.6, Mac OS Lion, Latest Java, 25 users, PostgreSQL 9.1.x.

Any other things to watch out for?

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Hi Christian,

I would choose more cores over higher clockspeed.
As for RAM this depends on if you use smart clients or web clients. Smart clients hardly use any extra RAM on the server.

Hope this helps.

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ROCLASI:
As for RAM this depends on if you use smart clients or web clients. Smart clients hardly use any extra RAM on the server.

Hope this helps.

That depends totally on how your solution is build!!
We do a lot of Servoy hosting, and we have seen solutions, with Smart-client eating up a lot of memory. And based on what they are trying to achieve, this was not easy to fix…
But these days, RAM is so cheap, put in the most you can get! ;-)

EDIT: and in my humble opinon, a mac mini as server?? :shock: yes afcourse it can be done, but a mac mini is NOT a server, and doesn’t comply to the standards, these days…
but again, that’s my opinion :wink:

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Thanks for the advice, we’ll go for a quad core with maximum RAM.

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swingman:
Hi all,

We are wapping out an old Mac Pro tower with a Mac mini to save space in the rack. When speccing out the Mini, what is the optimal config for running Servoy?
Dual-core i7 at 2.7Ghz or
Quad-core i7 running at 2.0Ghz

We are on Servoy 6.0.6, Mac OS Lion, Latest Java, 25 users, PostgreSQL 9.1.x.

Any other things to watch out for?

Get the SSD for spiffy db performance.