RE: Enough grunt for V4R5?

V4R4 went unsupported on 5/31/01.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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Can you upgrade to V4R4 instead?  Is that still supported?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Neil Palmer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:26 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Enough grunt for v4r5?
>
>
> Going to/past V4R4, in my experience, will have a performance impact on
> small systems that are low on memory.
>
> Suggest you go shopping for used memory and increase to the
> maximum, which
> for the 400-2131 is 224MB.
> You may have to remove a pair of 32MB features and replace with a pair of
> 64MB to reach that limit.
> It should only cost a few hundred $.
> I wouldn't say it would make a BIG difference, but it will help - and
> 224MB is your limit.
>
> Then I'd suggest trying QPFRADJ=3 and on WRKSHRPOOL for Paging make sure
> your pools have *CALC and not *FIXED.
>
> ...Neil
>
>
>
>
>
> Matthias Oertli <oertlim@s054.aone.net.au>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 2001/08/01 05:10
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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>         To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Enough grunt for v4r5?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We're looking at upgrading our box from v4r3 to v4r5 (just to get to a
> supported release).
>
> The machine is a 9402 400 with processor feature 2131. We have 160MB of
> RAM and 24GB of disk with 16GB usable (combination RAID/MIRROR) of which
> about 54% is used. It's supporting mainly green screen/telnet
> interactive users (about 30) and a tiny bit of netserver stuff.
>
> I wouldn't say we have performance problems, but response time sometimes
> is borderline, I would not want to see it get worse.
>
> My question: if we go to v4r5 do I have to expect diminished
> performance? Greatly diminished performance?
>
> If I was to upgrade the RAM to the maximum the box can take (I think
> about 224MB) would this make a big difference?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Best regards,
> Matthias
>
>
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