Sizing Memory

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It is important to equip your server with a sufficient amount of physical memory to ensure good performance.

While InterBase can function in a low-profile hardware configuration, with as little as 32MB of RAM on most operating systems, it is recommended to have at least 64MB of RAM on a server system. Database servers that experience a high load can benefit from more RAM.

The base RAM requirement of the ibserver executable and for each connected user is low: approximately 1500KB, plus 28KB for each client connection. ibserver caches metadata and data for each database to which it connects. User operations such as sorting temporarily consume additional memory. A heavily loaded server with dozens of clients performing concurrent queries requires up to 256MB of RAM.

On Windows, you can use the Task Manager, Performance Monitor, and other tools to monitor the resource use of ibserver. UNIX and Linux servers have similar resource consumption reporting tools. Add RAM to a system that shows too many page faults.

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