How do I tune a NT workstation to achieve a server-like performance?
You can run our Comtun proxy software on a workstation. However, NT Workstation and NT Server have vastly different performance characteristics due to the internal tuning that the NT operating system, which is identical on both, performs. Most tuning parameters are inaccessible, but a few are located in the Registry. If you are running Server and you double-click on the Server entry of the Services tab in the Control Panel’s Network applet, you will get a dialog that lets you determine what type of application you want the machine to be tuned for. Choices let you select between “Minimize Memory Used”, “Balance”, “Maximize Usage for File Sharing”, and “Maximize Usage for Network Applications”. This dialog box is not presented on Workstation installations. The various selections actually change the values of two Registry values: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache and HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size
