Re: CGIDEV2 performance versus Net.Data

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Nathan M. Andelin <nandelin@relational-data.com>
> From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@attglobal.net>
> > we must distinguish between JOBS running (103 right now)
> > and PROGRAMS active (9984 right now) [the latter not shown
> > by any "standard" command, but I have my own, of course].
> Ok.  OS/400 can efficiently manage thousands of program activations, even
on
> a small system.  That sounds significant.
> But I still question whether OS/400 can efficiently manage thousands of CGI
> program activations.  Master, help Thou my unbelief :)

I think OS/400 can do this. A lot depends on what the CGI programs do
(DB I/O, CPU-bound HTML generation, etc)

>
> It seems to me that running a CGI program in named activation group is akin
> to returning to a menu from a 5250 program without ever closing it's files
> or deallocating it's memory.

Don't forget that (at least with the OPM) that that is the default behavior.


>  Will that scale as the number of interactive Jobs increase?

I'm not quite sure what you mean? is a GCI-job interactive?