Re: Online 7.x on IBM uni-processor

Posted in 1997

Jason Harris — Wed, 03 Sep 1997 00:46:18 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 1 Sep 1997 07:57:36 GMT, David Kerslake <daveanne@ihug.co.nz> wrote: Dear David, I once tried to run DSA v7.1 on a single CPU SUN SPARC and it was noticably slower that 5.01. This was an OLAP environment. If you must go to DSA then you should upgrade to a multi-cpu system. To support the additional functionality of DSA requires alot more CPU resources than version 5. HTH, Jason >We are running Informix systems on IBM RS6000s under AIX 4.2. We have to >upgrade to Informix DSA v7.x to take advantage of the latest release of >our application. > >We have heard that DSA, written for multi-processors, runs slower on a >uni-processor (which is what we have). Has anyone any information on >any potential performance degradation? > >David Kerslake > >