Re: Socket Speed Question - RPG vs PC

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 11:25 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

There are many things which I've found much faster on a PC than on an
IBM i. My intuition says this is almost all down to the respective
roles and design choices of the systems being compared. The
performance of the IBM i doesn't seem to be affected much as you add
users and workload. If I have too many things running on my
single-user PC, I start to notice.

I would agree here, except that I'm using a Power 8 (41A) with just one
user in this case. Should have much more "horsepower" than my PC.
(should being the operative keyword here... haha).

Actually, my point is that the IBM i runs more-or-less the same
whether you have 1 user or (let's keep it real safe here) 10.

Compared to the PC, the IBM i at 1 user is dog slow. Then, at 10
users, the IBM i is running at basically the same speed as it did for
1 user, but the PC in all likelihood is struggling under the load.

The IBM i *does* have much more horsepower than your PC, but it
achieves it by generating prodigious torque limited to low revs, like
a freight train engine. The PC is more like a sports car.

Yep, I got that from your response. In fact, I almost replied with a
sports car vs tractor example.. :)

My concern is still that my line is 30mb down and I'm getting only about
8mb down using IBM i sockets. PC is pretty close to the 30mb.