Re: Poor IFS performance? (The answer / not a rant)

Booth,

Actually, I'm running this entirely on the AS/400 and there is no
network involved. The application is an ILE C application that runs on
the AS/400 and uses the IFS file system. 

Patrick

boothm@earth.Goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> Patrick, have you another file server on the LAN that you could try the
> same thing on an Novell, Apache, OS/2, or NT server too?  I ask because I
> wonder if the NIC cards or router might be part of the issue?  The local
> drive would certainly be fastest but my gosh 4 minutes seems slow by any
> measurement.
> 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
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> Patrick Townsend <townsend@patownsend.com>
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> 03/01/2000 07:17 PM
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>         Subject:        Re: Poor IFS performance? (The answer / not a rant)
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Here are the timings:
> 
>    PC version (local hard drive):       25 seconds
>    PC version (mapped IFS drive):       4 minutes 8 seconds
>    AS/400 version (IFS drive):          4 minutes 14 seconds
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Peter Dow wrote:
> >
> > A few seconds faster than which one? The PC version running against a
> local
> > drive or the AS/400 version?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Patrick Townsend <townsend@patownsend.com>
> > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Poor IFS performance? (The answer / not a rant)
> >
> > >
> > > The PC version running with the mapped drive was a few seconds faster.
> > > Go figure...
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > > Peter Dow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Patrick,
> > > >
> > > > You mentioned in your original post that you also ran the PC version
> > using a
> > > > mapped drive. What was the timing on that?
> > > >
> > > > Peter Dow
> > > > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > > > 909 425-0194 voice
> > > > 909 425-0196 fax
> > > >
> > > > From: Patrick Townsend <townsend@patownsend.com>
> > > > > The data is in ASCII in an IFS file system and I'm running an ILE
> C
> > > > > application against it. The application takes 4 minutes 14 seconds
> to
> > > > > execute on a dedicated RISC AS/400 (model 150, but same results on
> > > > > larger systems). The very same application compiled on a 200 mhz
> Dell
> > NT
> > > > > running against the same file on the local hard drive takes 25
> seconds
> > > > > to execute.
> > > >
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