Never feel stupid asking questions.

A 500 Mhz pc should be PLENTY to run Db2. (Assuming you are not trying to
do 200 transactions/second). There are several things you can do to greatly
improve the speed of DB2 on this box.

1. Remove a great number of the services running under XP. There are MANY
services under NT/W2K/XP that are not needed on a server.

2. Memory, Memory, Memory! Put a gig of ram in the machine and things will
really improve. You should change the DB2 config to tune the memory usage.
256M is what I would call a minimum.

Richard

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 02:13:49 -0300, Alejandro Daniel Toffetti wrote:

>Hi folks !
>
> This is my first post to this list. I've recently downloaded and
>tried DB2 v8 Express Edition. I've installed it on a P III 500 Mhz with
>256 RAM development box running Win XP and I've found that the admin
>tools, specially the Command Center, are now huge resource consumers
>(compared to DB2 v6.1).
> The installation notes just says this:
>
>Hardware requirements
> An Intel x86 compatible processor
>
> Does anybody knows what are the minimum required hardware to run
>it properly ? Is there any arcane way to make it run faster / using
>less resources ? I feel stupid asking this, It's just that we will not
>be able to upgrade all our hardware anytime soon.
>
>Kind regards and thanks in advance for any hint.
>
>Daniel
>
>
>
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