Re: OWS: Online Workgroup Server on NT 4.0 very slow ?

Posted in 1997

Peter Wiley — Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:23:52 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <32DD567F.64A8@westend.com> Martin Thole <mthole@westend.com> writes: >We have just installed the new Online Workgroup Server OWS >on NT 4.0 with SP 1 (Pentium 100 with 32 MB). All works well, >- we generate the demo database stores7 without any problem. > >But it takes over one minute to start the Database Explorer ! >The test utility ilogin32 takes about 2 minutes to fetch >10 rows of customers (stores7). Doubt you have enough RAM. NT is a RAM pig. 32 Mb is (IMO) barely enough to run the o/s, let alone a database server *and* local client. Been there, done that using Progress. I put in 64Mb for better results. Still not a patch on a unix o/s, though. Peter Wiley