Guide to Updating Plug-ins

Appendix A
Technical specifications and optimization
Limits for files and usage Hardware and network considerations
Keep the following points in mind when you’re setting up
FileMaker Server on your computer and configuring the network
where it will run.
Use a dedicated computer
Use FileMaker Server by itself on a computer on which no other
applications are normally running and that isn’t a user’s primary
workstation. When FileMaker Server is hosting many guests or a
large number of database files, it uses a high level of processor, disk,
and network capacity. Other processor-intensive applications or
heavy network traffic on the same computer causes
FileMaker Server to run more slowly, and the performance of
FileMaker Pro on guest computers to degrade.
Use as fast a computer as possible
The faster the computer, the better the performance of
FileMaker Server.
1 Windows and Red Hat Linux: FileMaker Server requires at
minimum a Pentium processor.
1 Mac OS: FileMaker Server requires at minimum a PowerPC
processor.
Item Maximum setting
Number of files hosted by
FileMaker Server
125 files, depending on the Maximum number of
files to host
(Windows and Mac OS) or MaxFiles
(Red Hat Linux) setting. (Other network
applications may limit this number.)
Number of files open at the
same time
50 per FileMaker Pro 5.x guests
Number of network users 250 guests. (AppleTalk support is limited to 124
simultaneous guests.) You can restrict the number
of simultaneously connected guests with the
Maximum number of simultaneously connected
guests
(Windows and Mac OS) or MaxGuests
(Red Hat Linux) setting. Specifying a realistic
number of guests fewer than 250 can optimize
performance.
File size 2 GB (gigabytes) per file. The combined size of
all open files is limited only by disk space.
Length of host name 31 characters
Length of FileMaker Server
password
31 characters
Length of filename Windows: 255 characters
Note To open the files in FileMaker Server, the
first 31 characters of the filename must be unique.
Mac OS: 31 characters
Red Hat Linux: 256 characters