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

Main, Kerry Kerry.Main at hp.com
Tue Mar 24 08:35:35 EDT 2009


> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Bart Zorn
> Sent: March 24, 2009 2:55 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Production VMS cluster hanging with lots of
> LEFO
> 
> On Mar 23, 3:09 pm, DaveG <david.gudew... at abbott.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 22, 3:37 am, Bart Zorn <Bart.Z... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 20, 4:06 pm, 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.
> >
> > > How much memory doe the 4100 have? I ran the AM G3.0 analyzer on a
> > > DS15 with 1 GB of memory and it behaved almost as snappy as on a
> > > Windows laptop with 1 GB!
> >
> > > Bart Zorn
> >
> > The 4100 has 1GB of memory.  Its also running 732 which I understand
> > is not as snappy as newer releases, but there's an awful lot of 732
> > systems out there, for various reasons.  I did an autogen thinking
> > something needed tweeking.  Nope.
> 
> That could be a difference. My DS15 runs V8.3.
> 
> Bart
> _______________________________________________

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