RE: How much Gas does PC/400 need?

I am of the opinion that Ops Nav is a pig for reasons other than PC CPU. I
have run it over a modem. That provides a different perspective because of
the byte counts in the DUN status dialog. I have watched it move hundreds of
KB in response to right clicking on something, such as a PPP profile. AND,
those hundreds of KB move before the little menu even appears. But it is
very inconsistent and I can't predict when it will do something like that.

I also find a big difference between a fast 170 we have versus a 150. So
don't forget, there is apparently significant server workload necessary to
feed that GUI client. Even the 170 is surprisingly slow in Ops Nav, even
over the LAN. But on the 150 over a modem, I can watch 100 bytes come in,
then a few seconds elapse, then 150 bytes, few seconds, etc. So it is not
even stressing the bandwidth of a dialup connection. It is simply the server
side trying to supply the data.

I don't notice much of a difference between a P-pro 200MHz, PIII 500, and
PIII 850 that I use. So I guess I am suggesting that it needs a lot of gas,
and that it needs it more on the server than the client.

-Marty
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:07:14 -0700
From: "Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com>
Subject: RE: How much Gas does PC/400 need?

Office = PII, 333mhz, 512mb ram, win2K(SP2), Ethernet over ATM.  CAE 4.5 and
5.1 are fine.  OpsNav is a complete pig, to the point of being useless.

Home = PIII 866mhz, 256mb ram, win98, cable modem, VPN.  CAE 4.5 and 5.1 are
fine.  OpsNav is still a complete pig but is barely useable.  

- -----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:john.taylor@telusplanet.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:51 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: How much Gas does PC/400 need?


We have V4R5 CA/Express running on machines configured Pentium 166Mhz/32MB
Ram. These are emulation users - not OpsNav, and performance is good.

OpsNav is a hungry beast. I'm currently the only one that uses it. My
machine is a PIII 550Mhz with 256MB Ram, and I find it slow. So far, I only
use it for configuration changes and working with the IFS. All of the job
related stuff is too slow to be useful.


John Taylor
Canada
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