RE: OnLine 7.X performance - R U satisfied?

johnny, >For OLTP applications, performance is no > better and in some cases worse > when compared to OnLine 5.x. For me, the administrative improvements > in 7.1 make up for whatever is lacking in performance, in most cases. But I i think that is usually the case, although when you can bring the pdq stuff into play, then the performance is there. > The fact that you are slowing down as users are added is contrary to the > conventional wisdom that the engine performs better under load. i think that as 7.X is designed as a multiprocess, multithreaded engine, in a >4 cpu enviornment, it probably screams. i don't know that it is any real gain in a smaller enviornment over 5.X, as bourne out by a lot of the discussions, but then informix would limit a lot of exposure if it sold it this way. as an example, go to http://www.dbintellect.com/archit~1/informix/DBINFRM.HTM to check out a 200gb database, on a 36 cpu SGI machine. impressive! > Again, this is our experience only. I'm sure there are many success stories > and I would like to hear them (from > someone not in marketing, preferably). i would like to as well. i know there are systems running quite well out there, i just want to hear about them, and what they did to get there. i think that for two days in production, my system is running quite well, and i think that i should be able to get it running better within a few weeks. mickm