Hi,
We are trying to migrate from traditional on an almost overloaded, aging G4
towards server on an Intel Mac Mini. We would, of course, like it to be
painless. It is not entirely. A few observations....
The first problem is the handling of 'international' characters: while it is OK
on traditional, it is completely broken on the server. Any name on a map using
'international' characters will be mangled when displayed on a Web page. Things
are even worse if a map name uses 'international' characters: it is mangled
when displayed on a Web page, AND also when using console/remote. We hope that
this known bug (or family of bugs...) will really be fixed in 4.5 (ref. William
W. Fisher 2006-01-30).
Then, we tried to migrate to contents of the graph data files to maintain
access to the old values. But when a file named, for example, 'L12-BytR' is
copied from traditional, server ignores it and builds a new 'L12-RtyB' file in
the same folder. I wonder if this is intentional or a result of the difference
in endianess between the G4 PPC and the Intel CPU.
While the maps displayed by console/remote are reasonable, the rendering of the
characters by the Web server is ugly. It seems worse that what an old
typewriter (remember those ?) was producing after many years of service.
On the other hand, we observe that while the polling (and display) of our 600
devices consumes 80% of a 400MHz G4 using traditional, server polls those
devices using 3% of one processor of an Intel Mini core duo. Room left for
expansion, which was needed.
Comments welcome. Best regards.
--
/AF
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