No of Proceesors for Windows 2000 Server

[Alastair MacFarlane]

Dear All,

A software vendor has advised us to add another 2
processors to our Windows 2000 server running SQL Server
2000. This would bring us up to the “4GB limit”. Can
someone please advise me whether windows server 2000 can
run with four processors? I seem to remember that it can
only cope with two. Should we be better upgrading the
Server version to 2003 instead?

Thanks again…

Alastair MacFarlane

 

[Unicorn]

This Link maybe useful for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

Kind Regards,
Farzad Hayati.

 

[Andrew Morton]

A software vendor has advised us to add another 2

processors to our Windows 2000 server running SQL Server
2000. This would bring us up to the “4GB limit”. Can
someone please advise me whether windows server 2000 can
run with four processors? I seem to remember that it can
only cope with two. Should we be better upgrading the
Server version to 2003 instead?

It's Windows 2000 Professional that works with only one or two processors.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

What makes you relate the number of processors to the amount of RAM?

Is the bottleneck the amount of processing power available, the amount of
RAM available, network bandwidth or disk drive access?

Andrew