In the Novell 2000/NT client there is also a file caching setting you want to turn off.
Troy Sosamon >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >On the Novell side of the equation check the client that you are using. The >4.7 client for Win 2000/NT has opportunistic file locking turned on by >default, and does not allow the user to change the setting. This setting is >supposed to enhance network access speed, but when dealing with databases in >general it causes great pain. You can either down grade to the NetWare >client 4.6 or upgrade to the current version 4.81 any version except 4.7 >seems to work fine. Good Luck! > >Charles E. Knapp Jr. >Information Services Director >Woodloch Pines Inc. >RR 1 Box 280 >Hawley, Pennsylvania 18428-9757 > >voice: 570.685.8027 >FAX: 570.685.8095 > >web address: www.woodloch.com >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Chuck Lockwood >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:48 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Re: Performance with 1 vs 2 users > > >Upgrade the Novel client on the offending workstation(s), there was a >problem with a version of the Novel client that would exhibit these results. > >Chuck Lockwood >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >LockData Technologies, Inc. >309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 >Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Albert Berry >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:34 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Re: Performance with 1 vs 2 users > > >This is a problem with W2K servers. We have not yet tested with Patch 2, >but up to Patch 1 there is a serious performance hit by simply having a >second user connect to a database. This user need not be doing anything. It >doesn't matter whether it is RBDOS or RBWin. > > >MJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Question......can we at least confirm this as a problem? If it's happening >on Win2k servers and Novell servers it should be worth the effort to track >it down. I >>could probably try to see if it's a network traffic issue by using a packet >sniffer, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Did you narrow it down to >anything? >>or exclude anything? >> >>Mike >> >>Albert Berry wrote: >> >>> We delved into this scenario quite a bit. M$ blames RBTI, RBTI could not >provide a solution either. 10:1 the server is W2K >>> >>> MJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >Hi all, >>> >A strange thing (at least I think it's strange) showed up today in >Rbase. The >>> >database is on a server. I connect with just one station, and run a >program >>> >which uses a declare cursor to check data in a bunch of rows. The >program >>> >completes in 10 seconds, plus or minus 1 second. I sometimes use this >program >>> >as a test for performance. Now....just for grins, I run Rbase on an >additional >>> >station, but I don't connect to the database... I just let the computer >sit at >>> >an R>. Keep in mind, these are the only 2 stations that are attached to >Rbase, >>> >1 connected to the database, 1 not connected to the database. Nobody >else is >>> >around, no other programs are being run on the server. I run the same >program >>> >again, same results, 9-11 seconds to finish. NOW.......I go to the >second >>> >machine, and just do a >>> >CONNECT dbname (multi user is on, staticdb is on). No other programs >are >>> >running. Now I run the same program again.....40 seconds!! 400% >longer!!!! >>> >Does this make sense? Network traffic should be about the same, so I >don't >>> >think it;s a network issue. 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