Hans,
How did you do the benchmarking? Do you have a copy of the runtime for Linux? if so then you already know how it behaves on that environment, and what problems you may have from changing from NCR UNIX MPRAS to Linux. (I assume no one is going to be working on the console!).
You mention 40.000 hits from the internet.
How do you have this setup? CGI, or other? This is where I would expect the more problems to occur (to many possible users at the same time).
When you mention flat files, are there Indexed, relative or plain (line) sequential files? (I would expect most to be indexed, but may be wrong).
If you at the moment have 170 users on a "slower" machine I would expect your new setup to work without any problems.
I have customers with 256 users without any problem on heavy systems (e.g. files with nearly 2GB in size, and on one situation even more).
Truusvlugindewind
If you are using RM/COBOL 85 on your site then your files/objects don't even need to be recompiled/converted. Just copy then and use the correct runtime.
If you use loads of scripts (c-shell, kshell or bourne shell) you may need to change some, but you won't know that until you try. Most of them should be ok.
If you are trying to do this ask your Liant supplier for an evaluation runtime for Linux and try it, as this will be the best for you.
Regards
Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd
