For anyone whose interested I found the cause of the performance problem I had.
My client had a terminal emulator running (TinyTerm, which some of you will have heard
of), running an app on a UNIX server. Whenever TinyTerm was running all workstations
would grind to a halt. It's not a network load issue as TinyTerm is running via a
serial port. It must be a resource issue BUT if it was running on the server all
workstations were affected but my app running locally on the server was OK. If
TinyTerm was running on a workstation everything was OK... so.... it must be a
resource problem between TinyTerm and IB Server (remote only) ? Anyway, not running
Tiny Term fixes it.
Has anyone had problems like this with terminal emulators or TinyTerm in particular.
Also does anyone know if TinyTerm is still supported and by who ?
As suspected you can't blame Win9x. Whilst not great it can certainly handle a 2-3
station peer to peer network.
Thanks
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Masters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 5:19 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Database Performance
I have deployed apps written in Centura using SQLBase on P166's all running W95. 4
networked PC's all running the app, no dedicated server. This worked fine so I find it
hard to say that the problems I have now are down to multitasking (or lack of)
problems with Win95/98.
This is why I thought it was a DB/BDE issue.
-----Original Message-----
From: Neven MacEwan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 3:55 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Database Performance
Andrew
Can you be more specific regards 'other SQL databases'
and '4 station peer network' are they also 98 and interbase 5.5
Regards
Neven
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 29 November 1999 16:25
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Database Performance
As much as I'd like to blame the OS, as I've said, I've deployed other C/S
apps using other SQL databases with lower spec'd hardware run quite nicely
on a 4 station peer network. I find it hard to believe a PII400 with 64MB
can't handle the load of 2 workstations even in a peer setup. The app does
not use long running SQL's either.
-----Original Message-----
From: Neven MacEwan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 12:31 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Database Performance
Andrew
This is what happens when you try to multitask under DOS
Your simplest solution is to change the server to NT
Regards
Neven
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