RE: [WDSCI-L] Stability problems

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ewout,

I find I still get the odd crash from WDSC, but it is fairly stable. I have
found that most of my crashes/lock-ups have occurred when using the LPEX
editor to edit CL/RPG, or when the WAS test environment crashes. 

I also do a lot of java coding and have never had a crash when just editing
or debugging java

I run it on a machine with 1GB of RAM, but you really need at least 512Mb if
your not running a local WAS test environment.

I would recommend running a memory tidy-upper. I use one called FreeRam, and
that seems to make my whole PC a lot more stable. 

cheers
Colin.W
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ewout.boter@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ewout.boter@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 04 August 2004 07:34
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Stability problems


I keep having problems with the stability of WDSCi. Sometimes, the 
application just terminates with a JVM error of some sort. (It happened to 
me again five minutes ago.) Refreshing the outline of an ILE RPG member 
causes a total lockup of the computer, and the same thing (sometimes) 
happens when I do a verify of a source member. This is all quite annoying, 
because of the following. 

Recently, I have started a new job at a firm where WDSCi is not used at 
the moment. I have been promoting WDSCi, and the head of the development 
department is very interested. He has asked me to investigate what it 
would take to start using WDSCi on a broader scale. "But", he told me, 
"the product has to be stable. When the product crashes all of the time, 
the productivity might be dropping instead of rising." I think this is a 
reasonable demand. Therefore, I would like to solve the stability 
problems. After having installed WSSD and WDSCi (version 5.1), I have 
downloaded and installed all the updates. That is to say, when I now click 
on New Updates, I get a message that "there are no new updates for the 
instaled features". Therefore, I assume that I am 'on level'. 
Nevertheless, the problems described above still keep occuring. 

I have read about version 5.1.2. Is this version more stable than version 
5.1.0.3, which I seem to be using now? How can I get a copy of this new 
version 5.1.2? 

I hope the problems related to the overall stability can be solved in some 
way, and I hope someone can get me on the right track.

Ewout
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