[Info-vax] Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of LEFO

[ken.fairfield at gmail.com]

On Mar 20, 8:06 am, DaveG <david.gudew... at abbott.com> wrote:
> Back to AM for a moment.  I'm currently field testing the next release
> of AM.  So far, so good BUT running the analyzer on VMS (lightly
> loaded 4100 / 7.3-2) is terrible in terms of performance.  Many many
> seconds for screens to appear / change.  Slow as molasses flowing up a
> tree in the middle of winter.  Its unuseable.
>
> Now switch to Windows running the analyzer and its as snappy as any
> other app.  No problems so far.  Works as advertised.  I give it 2
> thumbs up.  I give the VMS analyzer (sorry) 2 thumbs down.
>
> I did mention in an email exchange with the AM guy ---- wouldn't it be
> nice if the analyzer ran on a LINUX box.  Answer:  you're not the
> first one to ask that question.  I don't expect to see it running/
> supported on LINUX any time soon or at all.

My recollection is that AM switched to being Java based
around the 7.3 time frame (if not earlier), and *that* really
slowed things down.  I don't know whether it's a matter of
Java being slow on VMS, or the Java-to-X rendering being
slow.  I do remember that when I'd start it up on a PWS,
all the icons for the existing windows (mostly DECterms)
would get shuffled around...seemed gratuitous and
annoying to me.

But I haven't messed with AM in about 3 years so I
don't know if things have gotten better (or worse).

   -Ken