Re: Performance of the distributed debugger

Hi Jim,

While it is true that Distributed Debugger is somewhat slower then the
interactive
source debugger, there are a couple of things that could speed up the
performance.
I even believe that debugger help has a chapter on 'performance
considerations' :-)

In particular, any variable in the 'Monitors' pane is automatically
re-evaluated on each
stop (step completion). Obviously, it takes a bit more time to evaluate an
entire array
then an individual array element.

As a matter of fact, we are working on some performance enhancements and
are
hoping to have them ready soon.

Regards,
Vadim Berestetsky
Distributed Debugger Development
Internet:  berestet@ca.ibm.com


"jim essinger" <esinger@fmtc.com>@midrange.com on 01/08/2002 04:49:41 PM

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Greetings!

I have tried to use the distributed debugger, but the
response time when stepping thru the program was slow.  I
had to go back to the interactive source debugger to get a
fast enough throughput.

Using Win 2000 Pro (service pack 2) with V4R5 on the AS/400
and V5R1 (Service pack 4) on the laptop.  256 meg of memory,
local TCP/IP connection.

How can I speed up the debugger.  I was watching some array
elements, and it seemed to have to refresh the whole array
every time I stepped the next insturction.  BTW: I was
debugging a COBOL program at the time (shouldn't make any
difference).

Thanks in advance.

Jim Essinger
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Student Loan Fund of Idaho
esinger@fmtc.com
208 - 452 - 4058
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