Re: Will RDi finally support 64 bit OS?

The biggest performance killer I've run into is disk fragmentation. WDSC
loves to read and write lots of small files. Once the fragmentation
gets to a certain point, the PC's performance will take a sudden and
very noticeable nosedive.


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On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Will RDi finally support 64 bit OS?

Justin Taylor wrote:

My current PC is running XP. It is a 2.6ghz Pentium, 2.5GB RAM and a
7200rpm HDD.

I always have these applications running: Firefox, WDSc, Outlook,
iSeries Nav & F.R.O.G for IBM i5.

Startup takes 10-15 minutes every morning. I have started with EGL,

so

that requires another WDSc instance and RAM used frequently pushes

2GB.

Performance is such that I will frequently go for coffee while waiting
on my PC. And you do not want to ask what happens when I have to

start

Visual Studio...

You've got bigger issues. I can make a couple of quick suggestions,
although they're probably not that feasible. I would highly recommend
looking into Thunderbird as a replacement for Outlook. I'm not sure you

can do it, but I love it, and it's really, really light on memory
footprint. Second, I'm not sure why you needed a second WDSC; you
should be able to run all of your regular projects in the same WDSC
workbench that you use for EGL.

I'm not sure how much memory FROG uses, but have you tried the Data
perspective in WDSC? It's pretty powerful. You can execute, save and
edit SQL scripts. The biggest limitation is no cut, paste or download
from the results, so it may not help at all.

But more importantly, it sounds like you've got a bunch of crap in your
system. You should really get some diagnosis tools and see what all
you're loading. It should not take 10-15 minutes to boot under any
circumstances.

Joe