Print server and loading question - 2nd time posted

[Randy Reimers]

I'm setting up a print server on 2003 for our migration to AD. Easy
enough to set up, but have a question:
I have about 150 printers to install, and don't know if I should put that
many on 1 server. The Novell server handled them just fine, but I have
concerns that 2003 can handle that many. There are about 10 different
models, HP and Lexmark, none are extreme load. There is a mix of 98SE and
XP for the PCs, I have read that 98 is a smaller load on the system.
Anybody have some real-world guidelines?
I found a paper on MS site, called "Windows Server 2003 - Print Server
Scalability and Sizing Technical Overview" The paper give NO real help,
only very general information and broad guidelines. There is a section on
performance monitoring, but I am unable to figure out how to follow the
directions - I can't get to where I'm supposed to select Spoolsv.exe from
the instance list. Can anyone give me real-world directions to follow, that
work?

Thank you - Randy

 

[Felix Maxa [MSFT]]

We're working on providing a document with real numbers.

As to performance monitoring.
Open a cmd or go to Start/Run and type in 'perfmon'
Right click in the lower right panel of perfmon and select "Add counters..."
As "performance object" select "process" and then you'll get a list of
running processes. Look for spoolsv.exe.

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[Randy Reimers]

Thanks for the comeback, I'd like to see the document when finished.

As far as your solution for performance monitoring, I finally got it - I was
thinking that I needed to select "Counters" first, then look in "Instances".
Could do it either way, I guess. Now I have the counters, and can monitor
the system.

Thanks - Randy