On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:19 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > ah, i would call that a 'terminal server', thats quite a different > workload then. I was thinking of 'application server' as something > like Tomcat, providing webservices. I thought about calling it that, but when I think of a terminal server I think of something like a POS system that runs one program on a stack of terminals. This is more of a centralized desktop application thing. > even so, I'd expect all those applications to be cached in main memory > once they are loaded the first time, unless this server is also memory > constrained. Well, users and applications come and go all day long and since this is a publishing company some of the files get pretty honkin' huge. The SSD is about $100 or so, so I figure at that price it's worth having for any gain that can be had, even if it isn't a blow-your-mind improvement under field circumstances. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!