RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

But it does make a difference what you are using for CGI.  For example, if
you're using Net.Data I'd say try it with RPG.  You'll get better responses.

Because you mentioned you were querying DBs, I am assuming you're not
referring to just static HTML page hits.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nathanma@haaga.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:32 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: What About Price vs. Performance?
> 
> 
> In my previous post, I lamented the fact that my OS/400 based Web
> applications performed poorly in comparison to their Windows 
> counterparts.
> On my 170-2290 I've been averaging 10 requests per second 
> under a maximum
> load stress test.  A comparable Windows application handles 
> 16 requests per
> second.
> 
> I think those who have tested their OS/400 based Web applications will
> realize that 10 RPS is excellent for a 73 CPW AS/400 that 
> performs moderate
> database I/O, and transactions, and returns a 3-10K HTML 
> response.  The
> problem is not that my applications perform poorly in 
> comparison to other
> OS/400 based Web applications.  It's the price vs. 
> performance in comparison
> to their Windows-Intel counterparts that's bothering me.
> 
> Any further insights are appreciated.
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> 
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