Test results are based on recorded timings for a single user on a PC with the minimum system requirements (listed on the previous page) connected to a SQL Server. Then, simulated users performed random, “everyday” ACT! tasks (see Appendix for list) at 1 – 120 second intervals to create the simulated user load. Under this load, timings are recorded for a single user performing these same tasks under the simulated load. The simulated single user and canary user timings are compared to each other to understand the difference between the two timings. The CPU and RAM database findings of this test are shown in the following chart

As shown in the chart (Figure 3), the SQL Server handled the user tests with relatively low stress to the hardware. The 100-user test averaged 33% for the CPU and also consumed an average of 28% of the available RAM (4 GB).