Hardware

You can find information about the hardware requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.

Contents

AIX

Hardware

Components

Requirement

Notes

Disk space

Rational® Performance Tester Agent

10 GB

  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.

  • Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run.

  • For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.

  • For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Memory

Rational® Performance Tester Agent

8 GB

Processor

Rational® Performance Tester Agent

1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher

Linux

Hardware

Components

Requirement

Notes

Disk space

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

10 GB

  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.

  • An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the /tmp directory.

Memory

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

8 GB

  • For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.

Processor

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher

  • For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Mac

Hardware

Components

Requirement

Notes

Disk space

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

10 GB

  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.

  • Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run.

Memory

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

8 GB

  • For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.

Processor

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher

  • For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Windows

Hardware

Components

Requirement

Notes

Disk space

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

10 GB

  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.

  • Large test runs can store several gigabytes of data. Make sure that you have adequate disk space before attempting a large test run.

  • Additional disk space is required if you use FAT32 instead of NTFS. An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory that you specify in the environment variable TEMP.

Memory

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

8 GB

  • For best results with large test runs, use 16 GB of RAM.

Processor

  • Rational® Performance Tester Agent

  • Rational® Performance Tester

Minimum: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or higher

  • For best results with large test runs, use a 2.30 GHz or higher Intel Core 2 Duo processor.