Re: Slow reposnse - sorted! Ish

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<bvfsso$s38id$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de>... > "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:hUGSb.4278$F23.1269@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > > Neil Truby wrote: > > > > > "Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote in message > > > news:bve3cb$qvajr$1@ID-161111.news.uni-berlin.de... > > > Depends. If it is $INFORMIXDIR/etc/informixrc (or whatever the > > filename actually is - the one under $INFORMIXDIR, anyway), then that > > is the documented behaviour. And setting PDQPRIORITY in it is > > intended to work for everybody - so (if I'm interpreting your scenario > > correctly), the engine is behaving exactly as you told it to, however > > unwittingly, and however ill-advisedly :-) > > There's no need to spare my feelings, Jonathan, I was just trying to fix > soneone else's system ...! > > > You can also have individual $HOME/.informixrc files. And you can > > really slow things up by having big files - it appears that connect > > time is awful, but actually the problem is the time it takes to read > > that file > > Huh? Can you explain this further ....? You also have this problem if you start the engine with the environment variable PDQPRIORITY set. Don't ask me how I know it is quite embarrassing. :-)