Re: ACS question

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Found this in the Getting started guide...

When displaying a directory with a large number of entries, you may exceed
> the default memory limit of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) where IBM i
> Access Client Solutions is running. This can cause all open windows to slow
> down and eventually stop responding. If you are displaying directories with
> a large number of entries, consider using the Include filter to limit the
> number of entries sent from the server. Or, start the product using the
> -Xmx option to increase the available memory. For example:
>     java -Xmx4g -jar V:/some_location/acsbundle.jar
> or
>     Start_Programs\Windows_x86-64\acslaunch_win-64.exe -Xmx4g
> The above examples will change the JVM memory to 4 gigabytes. You may need
> to increase the size even more based on the number of entries in the
> directory.


HTH,
Charles

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A few years back, I worked with IBM to test fixes for the ACS IFS viewer
>
> I don't recall the details, but as I recall I was working with 80-100k
> files in a directory.
>
> Ultimately, they were successful in making the IFS viewer much more
> responsive.  I never saw crashes like you describe, just very, very poor
> (read unusable) performance.
>
> Might be worth opening a case with IBM.
>
> HTH,
> Charles
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 1:47 PM DEnglander--- via MIDRANGE-L <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone else experience this:
> >
> > I have multiple 5250 windows open in ACS to different IBM i servers in
> > our
> > network. Quite often, when I click on the IFS plug-in, I suffer a hard
> > crash in ACS only. This seems to happen when a folder I access has alot
> > [i.e 10,000+ entries] in it. The PC seems to get sluggish, then the 5250
> > windows all start closing themselves, one by one until there are no more
> > 5250 windows open, and the IFS plug-in is closed too.
> >
> > I am running ACS version on 11.0.8
> >
> > Is there some kind of limit to ACS's IFS Plugin? Has there been an update
> > to Windows that is causing this? Does anyone else experience this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
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