FR> Ran SMEM (tool on Netwire) assuming 50 clients and 40,000 files.  Came
 FR> up with minimum required memory is 26,494 kilobytes.  That's the minimum
 FR> required memory.  Adding more goes directly into cache and serves to
 FR> improve file server performance.
Look at the output for your scenario:
Memory requirement for directory tables : 240 KB
Memory requirement for additional Name Spaces : 0 KB
Memory required to cache the FAT : 2048 KB
Memory required for file cache : 20000 KB
Please enter the total memory required for support NLMs (KB) : 0
Please enter the total memory required for other NLMs (KB) : 0
Total Minimum Server Memory Requirement : 24736 KB
Total Minimum Server Memory Requirement :     24.16 MB
I will ignore for the moment the line stating that the file cache *requires* 
20MB and will instead pretend that Total Minimum really means Total Minimum. 
Why would you increase that 20MB file cache to 60MB on a 64MB machine?
Novell recommends 24MB minimum so 25% above that seems like a safe pad. 
_Troubleshooting Netware 3.12_ seems to corraborate this because they suggest 
8MB RAM per gig of disk space. They also state that this 8MB estimate is 
grossly overstated for disks over 1.5gb. If 32gb is a grossly overstated 
recommendation for 4gb, then what is 64gb?
Rules of thumb are handy for planning, but what good are they if they aren't 
externally verifiable? Does your 16MB rule of thumb have any source or 
verification?
What if I were a customer standing with you at the console, with 20MB of 
cache buffers and a 95%+ hit rate on my cache? How would you sell me another 
32MB of RAM?
Jeff
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