Re: Slow reposnse - sorted! Ish

Posted in 2004

Jonathan Leffler — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:07:13 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby wrote: > "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote: >>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 ....? If you have a 1 MB .informixrc, it takes a few seconds to read it, one character at a time. Try truss (strace, ...) on an Informix program, sometime. Up to about 8 KB (on Solaris), the performance problem was not bad -- bigger than that, not good. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/