[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-07, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/7/2022 8:37 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>>                     due to parts of VMS being much heavier weight than
>> in other comparable operating systems.
>
> I do not consider VMS heavy weight. When I see how little
> that is running on VMS compared to Linux or Windows, then I
> consider VMS lightweight. Try count number of processes and
> memory usage.
>

I/O model, process creation, etc are the kinds of things I am referring
to when I describe VMS as heavy weight compared to (say) Linux.

> VMS IO may be a pain point. First SSD and a bit of optimized
> config. Later some deeper changes.
>

That may not be anywhere near enough. For example, what about network
I/O performance on VMS ?

Simon.

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