Probably need to see Progress running on the IBM under AIX - or UV on Intel chip with same OS to make significant comparison; even neglecting just WHAT is going on under the hood .... could have been 400+ users doing 'nothing'
Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis >Sent: Friday, 16 April 2004 1:36 PM >To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' >Subject: RE: UniVerse vs Progress Performance > >I'm curious if there is a follow up on this? Is it a database tuning >issue? >Indexing? Memory? ... > >Thanks. --dawn > >Dawn M. Wolthuis >Tincat Group, Inc. >www.tincat-group.com > >Take and give some delight today. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Andr� Nel >Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:07 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: FW: UniVerse vs Progress Performance > > > >Hi All > >Visited a neighbouring company (same line of business as ours) running 430 >users on a Compaq Proliant box with SCO Openserver 5 and Progress version >9.1c as database. Application is in-house. At the time of my visit the CPU >usage was constantly running at 80%. No problems being experienced with >users complaining the system is slow etc. > >The server spec is as follows: > >2x intel pentium III xeon 500Mhz processors >1.8GB RAM >Smart Array 3200 controller >Compaq Fast SCSI-2 controller >10x 18.2 GB Ultra SCSI-2 drives (8 drives are RAID 1, other 2 RAID 0) and 5 >drives on Ultra 2 controller and 5 drives on Ultra 3 Controller >2x 10/100 Tx Ethernet controllers > >We are running AIX v5.1 with Maintainance Level 3 and UniVerse 10.0.7 (190 >users) on a p620 box with the following specs: > >System Model: IBM,7025-6F1 >Machine Serial Number: 6577ABA >Processor Type: PowerPC_RS64-III >Number Of Processors: 2 >Processor Clock Speed: 602 MHz >CPU Type: 64-bit >Kernel Type: 32-bit >LPAR Info: -1 NULL >Memory Size: 4096 MB >Good Memory Size: 4096 MB >Paging 3072MB >Firmware Version: IBM,M2P01208 > >Our box is struggling with the 190 users. File types are T30. All our lines >are minimum 64K diginet. > >Comparing the 2 boxes, the amount of users on each box, any reason why we >are struggling with the 190 users? The transaction volumes of the company >running 430 users are considerably higher than ours? > >Any comments please > >Thanks > >Andr� > > >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.658 / Virus Database: 421 - Release Date: 9/04/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.658 / Virus Database: 421 - Release Date: 9/04/2004 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
