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Macintosh Manager and servers

We've been trying to help out our poor MM server. There are 600+
students here in the new middle school, and 60-70 teachers and staff
that access the server. It was noticibly slowing down with too many
people logging in at once, and after reading the 2 MB per connecting
computer suggestion, I had our District Technology Coordinator increase
the total ram in the unit from 256MB to 512MB. Still, on Monday, there
were plateaus of 98%/99% usage during the day (and by the way, I know
there's a usage history interval listed, but would it be possible to
have different places on the graph stamped with the times of day that
usage reached the graphed levels?). We also upgraded hard drive capacity
within the server from 20 GB to a total of 65 GB between two hard
drives. We're looking into the possibility of getting a third G4 with a
third AppleShare IP license to use strictly as an authentication server,
and allow the existing server to continue in file and data storage. My
only thought on that is, how do you allow a connection from one server
doing authentication to the other doing file serving without granting
too much access? Also, after making that connection, is the connection
to the authentication server cut or maintained? Has anyone else done
this, where authentication is on one unit and file services on the
other? Would throwing yet MORE RAM into the machine ease its load and
usage statistics?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
John Buell

Technology Assistant
Clarendon Hills Middle School
Clarendon Hills, IL



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