Ideally, Adaptive Server is the only major application on a machine, and must share CPU, memory, and other resources only with the operating system, and other Sybase software such as Backup Server™ and Adaptive Server Monitor™.
At the operating system layer, the major issues are:
The file systems available to Adaptive Server
Memory management – accurately estimating operating system overhead and other program memory use
CPU availability and allocation to Adaptive Server
Options include:
Network interface
Choosing between files and raw partitions
Increasing the memory size
Moving client operations and batch processing to other machines
Multiple CPU utilization for Adaptive Server
