RE: RE: Seeking comments on stability of Informix on various plat

Posted in 1999

Willem Roos — Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:00:34 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF13D7.D752E576 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I've had enormously funny behaviour with NT on Intel - continously having to explain to users why i sometimes takes 5 minutes to connnect to the database server and sometimes 1 second, why does process A, a very simple select, take so long while process B, that should be slow, is fast.. I've found performance to suffer whenever i've had more that 5 users connected and i don't believe my installation was that badly configured (i closely follow the performance/configuration threads on cdi :-). On NT you can't allocate as much shared memory (1 GB or something similar seems to ring a bell - does someone have an exact figure). We've opted for Unixware on Intel - now performance is OK but stability is down the drain. What about Solaris on Intel? -----Original Message----- From: Paul watson [mailto:watsop@russellcorp.co.uk] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:18 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: RE: Seeking comments on stability of Informix on various platforms >>Pretty much anything sucks on NT. :-> There are people who claim to get >>good stability on NT, but they're few and far between. >> >>If you wanted something rock-solid, and you had to choose between Intel/NT >>and Sparc/Solaris, I'd go with Sparc every time. > > >[Murray Wood] >We have clients running on NT. It is very stable, but you must be careful >on NT to ensure that the database runs on its own machine - and nothing >else. Connect to the database from (another) application server. Getting NT stable is not the problem, it's the fact if you add anything to the box then you loose the stabilty. In our case we put a new version of Arcserve on and ended up having to reinstall Informix. >For simplicity we have NT Terminal Server Edition as an application server, >and most problems arise here with clients who want to run other >applications (such as office, mail server etc) on the application server. > > >We do concur with OTC that Sun Sparc is our preference of platform. > Agreed Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678729 www.wfsoftware.com/informix # If you broke it, hide the evidence ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. 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I've found performance to suffer whenever i've had more that 5 users connected and i don't believe my installation was that badly configured (i closely follow the performance/configuration threads on cdi :-). On NT you can't allocate as much shared memory (1 GB or something similar seems to ring a bell - does someone have an exact figure). We've opted for Unixware on Intel - now performance is OK but stability is down the drain. What about Solaris on Intel? -----Original Message----- From: Paul watson [<A HREF="mailto:watsop@russellcorp.co.uk">mailto:watsop@russellcorp.co.uk</A>] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:18 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: RE: Seeking comments on stability of Informix on various platforms >>Pretty much anything sucks on NT. :-> There are people who claim to get >>good stability on NT, but they're few and far between. >> >>If you wanted something rock-solid, and you had to choose between Intel/NT >>and Sparc/Solaris, I'd go with Sparc every time. > > >[Murray Wood] >We have clients running on NT.  It is very stable, but you must be careful >on NT to ensure that the database runs on its own machine - and nothing >else.  Connect to the database from (another) application server. Getting NT stable is not the problem, it's the fact if you add anything to the box then you loose the stabilty.  In our case we put a new version of Arcserve  on and ended up having to reinstall Informix. >For simplicity we have NT Terminal Server Edition as an application server, >and most problems arise here with clients who want to run other >applications (such as office, mail server etc) on the application server. > > >We do concur with OTC that Sun Sparc is our preference of platform. > Agreed Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678729 www.wfsoftware.com/informix # If you broke it, hide the evidence ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they   <FO

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