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>More memory is always better, and the next
>system I buy will have much more but for
>general development 512M is fine. Think
>your extreme requirement is due to the
>Web Facing work you are doing.

I agree that our project is a Big Pig.  I should have been more clear that I
can't speak for the requirements for other aspects of WDSc.  Here's my
situation.  At my desk, I have an old Pentium II 450 with 128megs RAM
running W98.  The ONLY reason I have this machine is to be able to run Code
5.1 SP5 (it won't run on W95.)  If it weren't for that requirement, I would
still be using my previous computer, a Pentium ? 266 with 64meg RAM.  That
266 still runs an earlier version of Code and it sits in my cubicle next to
the 450.  I use them both every day, keeping my manuals and newsreader on
the 266 and my email and iSeries sessions (Open Source tn5250) on the 450.
The 266 performs well enough for me, and the 450 is plenty of horsepower for
Code/tn5250, MS Outlook and the occasional MS Word/Excel file.

When we decided to try WebFacing, I fired it up on the 450.  It took a very
long time (days) to convert a small application.  Then (of course) we looked
at the requirements.  Oops.  With the price of hardware dropping, we bought
a PC just to do the WebFacing conversion (the 1GHz Athlon with a gig of RAM,
W2K).  That machine is in the 'server farm' cube, and is a now a test bed
for several projects, including the WF conversion.  It also acts as WAS 4.0
admin console.  Only by sharing this resource was I able to justify it's
acquisition.

The standard machine here is something in the 450-700 MHz class, because
that's what we bought when we replaced the previous generation of machines
(the 266 class).  Replacing them in one shot is not going to happen.

The fact that 4.0 physically lives on a different machine makes it
inconvenient for me to try anything else out :-( but perhaps once I stop
running continuous conversions on it I'll have the chance to go play.

>I do monitor memory use and occasionally have
>to reboot (even W2K seems to leak - especially
>with web page applets).

Same thing here.  I reboot after every logical operation: Create project,
Convert, Export, install.  This is MUCH better than 5.0 (again talking
strictly about WebFacing) where I could not convert the whole app in one
gulp because of memory leaks.  I had to break the conversion into 4 parts
and reboot after each conversion.

Good to hear from you David!
  --buck


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