Re: Why is the iSeries so slow

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

Let me get this straight.  By front-ending the iSeries with a PC,  you only
see a 10% performance improvement?  Why add the PC to the configuration?

Actually, I think you're saying that the CPU in the PC is faster than the
CPU in the 820, which is probably true.  My question is when given a complex
Web workload, which would perform better?

Of course, if you were using efficient native iSeries interfaces rather than
Java, you'd probably be seeing 500% to 1000% performance improvement ;-)

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com


> From: "Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I have a web application that's about to get off the
> ground here, and with the exact same iSeries back
> end (that's where our OLTP runs, as does Scott's
> and yours), we get roughly 10% better performance
> running Tomcat 4.1.24 on a PC than on our 820
> 24AA.  On the same network.  With the exact same
> Java servlets.