Performance Ramblings

When you say the stock status is broke, can you elaborate? We're
getting ready to take a significant inventory write down because of the
inventory / stock status discrepancy and have been assured that it is
corrected on 6.1.540. I need to make sure that what you're seeing isn't
a continuation of a 6.1 problem that wasn't really corrected.

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of rstulce
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings



We updated a 8.00.811 last week. Other than an issue with the Stock
Status
report (it's broke) the performance has been the same as 810. So wait
until the report, or 811x patch, then you may be able to move up without
loosing performance. We are also a small manufacturer and I hate to jump
on
the performance band wagon but we have seen the same issues as everyone
else. I too spend allot of my time calming our users frustrations at
Vantage.

There is a bottleneck in Vantage performance somewhere, but I haven't
heard
Epicor acknowledge that there is nor that they are working on a
solution.

Thanks,

Randy Stulce

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
John Walter
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am still running 6.1 but I understand one of the objectives of 8.03
was an
increase in performance over 8.0. Has this not been met?

John Walter | National IS Manager | Hufcor Pty Ltd
7 Trade Park Drive, Tullamarine Vic 3043
Phone +61 3 9330 3733 | Fax +61 3 9338 9015
Email john.w@hufcor. <mailto:john.w%40hufcor.com.au> com.au
www.hufcor.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Scott Litzau
Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2007 1:57 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am on 8.00.810c and every time this group talks about performance it
seems
to get worse as the Patch Levels go up. I was going to go to 8.00.811 in
a
couple of weeks and I am looking at 8.03.xxx but my users complain of
the
slowness now. If I upgrade to get he new features they will scream about
the
performance.

We are a small manufacturer that had 5 separate systems running what we
consolidated into Vantage, a blessing from an IT standpoint and the
visibility and historical perspective. I went through a lengthy
evaluation
time and then a group of key people choose Vantage over 4 other systems
for
the feature set and customization possibilities. In my environment I
continue to have to make my users see why we went with a new system.
They
are frustrated with the lack of performance, as am I.

I know that Epicor people monitor this group and all I have to say is
that
Epicor should be committed to rectifying performance issue we all have
seen
and experienced. Until they do that then having new features in an
upgraded
version is just not worth it. AND make us aware that you are aware of
the
situation and inform us what you are doing to improve it. Communicate,
communicate, communicate. It is so simple and would let us know you hear
our
concerns.

In the last few days, after reading all the posts regarding performance,
it
has become apparent that I need to take all my desktops to 2GB RAM, they
are
at 1GB now, maybe I should just max them to 4GB for XP (32 bit). I
thought
1GB at the time should be plenty, but it has become obvious that is not
so.
So besides the cost for Vantage I need to incur additional costs just to
make sure the user experience is tolerable. As a small manufacturer we
are
always watching costs, our margin for bad decisions is not as great as
larger manufacturers.

That's my rant.

Scott Litzau
IT Manager
Olympus Flag & Banner

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From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Joe Rojas
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:14 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

We are on 8.03.304C and each line added increases subsequent load times.

Thanks,

Joe Rojas

IT Manager

TNCO, Inc.

781-447-6661 x7506

jrojas@tnco- <mailto:jrojas%40tnco-inc.com> inc.com

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of bw2868bond
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

Well, the 'wheel' wants to keep my PC. No noticable difference
connecting pc between 100T and 1000T. The 3.0 GHz processor and 2 Gb
ram helped.

New problem noticed after moving from 809f to 811...
In POEntry, time to add line item to 65 line PO has increased
dramatically from 809f to 811. Support dwells on our customization of
the form but the slowdown is evident on the base module. Anyone else
notice performance slowdown with PO Entry on Many lined POs??

--- In vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Stephen Edginton" <stephene@...>
wrote:
>
> Keep us posted Bernie I have not found teaming on gigabit
connections to
> have any impact on speed for the clients might do some testing!
>
>
>
>
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
> Of bw2868bond
> Sent: 21 March 2007 16:10
> To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings
>
>
>
> A few weeks back, I was looking into 'performance'. Being 'old
> school' I figured performance of the Vantage product depended
heavily
> on server horsepower. I watched CPU and network utilization of my
> workstation while locking a workorder. My P4 3 Ghz machine went to
> nearly 100% processor usage and network traffic had a large spike
as
> well. It took roughly 8 seconds to lock the job.
>
> I looked at the server with it's two nic ports and single cable....
> I connected a second cable from nic to hub and enabled 'teaming'
> effectivly doubling my nic speed. I performed the same lock process
> on my workstation and this time the network utilization increased
and
> finished in 4 seconds...
>
> My presumtion is I have a highly capable server loafing around
> waiting for the network and the clients to do all the work. My test
> network is only 100 baseT but even on the production network,
> improvement has been seen by nic teaming in a gigabit switched
> environment.
>
> Tomorrow I will be letting a 'squeaky wheel' use my workstation to
> see what kind of difference is evident
>
> >
> >
> > Scott writes:
> > >... We are on Vantage 8.00.810c and I am
> > > always looking for ways to improve client performance beyond
just
> > > hardware upgrades.
> >
> > This multi-tiered architecture makes it difficult to see where
the
> time
> > is
> > spent while waiting for transactions. My server is RARELY above
5%
> cpu
> > usage,
> > my hit rates are in the 90% range (who database in memory),
running
> GB
> > ethernet, but some things (like saving work orders) is awfully
> slow. Are
> > there
> > any tools that help determine where the time is spent on these
> > transactions?
> > Time on the client? Time in transit? Time on the server? Etc.
> >
> > I suspect that a lot of time is wasted marshalling and un-
> marshalling
> > data
> > to/from XML in the ADO.Net stack but I'm not sure how to improve
on
> > that.
> > Throwing hardware works for a while but it seems that there's a
lot
> of
> > room
> > for improvement.
> >
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > Mark W.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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I don't think it's the same issue. The report isn't printing it just goes
into the "processing" mode and stays there, we let one report run for 7
hours when it should take maybe 30 min. It's been working up to this patch
and we're working with support on it now.



Randy Stulce





_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Mike Lowe
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:14 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings



When you say the stock status is broke, can you elaborate? We're
getting ready to take a significant inventory write down because of the
inventory / stock status discrepancy and have been assured that it is
corrected on 6.1.540. I need to make sure that what you're seeing isn't
a continuation of a 6.1 problem that wasn't really corrected.

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of rstulce
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

We updated a 8.00.811 last week. Other than an issue with the Stock
Status
report (it's broke) the performance has been the same as 810. So wait
until the report, or 811x patch, then you may be able to move up without
loosing performance. We are also a small manufacturer and I hate to jump
on
the performance band wagon but we have seen the same issues as everyone
else. I too spend allot of my time calming our users frustrations at
Vantage.

There is a bottleneck in Vantage performance somewhere, but I haven't
heard
Epicor acknowledge that there is nor that they are working on a
solution.

Thanks,

Randy Stulce

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
John Walter
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am still running 6.1 but I understand one of the objectives of 8.03
was an
increase in performance over 8.0. Has this not been met?

John Walter | National IS Manager | Hufcor Pty Ltd
7 Trade Park Drive, Tullamarine Vic 3043
Phone +61 3 9330 3733 | Fax +61 3 9338 9015
Email john.w@hufcor. <mailto:john.w%40hufcor.com.au> com.au
www.hufcor.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Scott Litzau
Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2007 1:57 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am on 8.00.810c and every time this group talks about performance it
seems
to get worse as the Patch Levels go up. I was going to go to 8.00.811 in
a
couple of weeks and I am looking at 8.03.xxx but my users complain of
the
slowness now. If I upgrade to get he new features they will scream about
the
performance.

We are a small manufacturer that had 5 separate systems running what we
consolidated into Vantage, a blessing from an IT standpoint and the
visibility and historical perspective. I went through a lengthy
evaluation
time and then a group of key people choose Vantage over 4 other systems
for
the feature set and customization possibilities. In my environment I
continue to have to make my users see why we went with a new system.
They
are frustrated with the lack of performance, as am I.

I know that Epicor people monitor this group and all I have to say is
that
Epicor should be committed to rectifying performance issue we all have
seen
and experienced. Until they do that then having new features in an
upgraded
version is just not worth it. AND make us aware that you are aware of
the
situation and inform us what you are doing to improve it. Communicate,
communicate, communicate. It is so simple and would let us know you hear
our
concerns.

In the last few days, after reading all the posts regarding performance,
it
has become apparent that I need to take all my desktops to 2GB RAM, they
are
at 1GB now, maybe I should just max them to 4GB for XP (32 bit). I
thought
1GB at the time should be plenty, but it has become obvious that is not
so.
So besides the cost for Vantage I need to incur additional costs just to
make sure the user experience is tolerable. As a small manufacturer we
are
always watching costs, our margin for bad decisions is not as great as
larger manufacturers.

That's my rant.

Scott Litzau
IT Manager
Olympus Flag & Banner

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Joe Rojas
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:14 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

We are on 8.03.304C and each line added increases subsequent load times.

Thanks,

Joe Rojas

IT Manager

TNCO, Inc.

781-447-6661 x7506

jrojas@tnco- <mailto:jrojas%40tnco-inc.com> inc.com

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of bw2868bond
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

Well, the 'wheel' wants to keep my PC. No noticable difference
connecting pc between 100T and 1000T. The 3.0 GHz processor and 2 Gb
ram helped.

New problem noticed after moving from 809f to 811...
In POEntry, time to add line item to 65 line PO has increased
dramatically from 809f to 811. Support dwells on our customization of
the form but the slowdown is evident on the base module. Anyone else
notice performance slowdown with PO Entry on Many lined POs??

--- In vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Stephen Edginton" <stephene@...>
wrote:
>
> Keep us posted Bernie I have not found teaming on gigabit
connections to
> have any impact on speed for the clients might do some testing!
>
>
>
>
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
> Of bw2868bond
> Sent: 21 March 2007 16:10
> To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings
>
>
>
> A few weeks back, I was looking into 'performance'. Being 'old
> school' I figured performance of the Vantage product depended
heavily
> on server horsepower. I watched CPU and network utilization of my
> workstation while locking a workorder. My P4 3 Ghz machine went to
> nearly 100% processor usage and network traffic had a large spike
as
> well. It took roughly 8 seconds to lock the job.
>
> I looked at the server with it's two nic ports and single cable....
> I connected a second cable from nic to hub and enabled 'teaming'
> effectivly doubling my nic speed. I performed the same lock process
> on my workstation and this time the network utilization increased
and
> finished in 4 seconds...
>
> My presumtion is I have a highly capable server loafing around
> waiting for the network and the clients to do all the work. My test
> network is only 100 baseT but even on the production network,
> improvement has been seen by nic teaming in a gigabit switched
> environment.
>
> Tomorrow I will be letting a 'squeaky wheel' use my workstation to
> see what kind of difference is evident
>
> >
> >
> > Scott writes:
> > >... We are on Vantage 8.00.810c and I am
> > > always looking for ways to improve client performance beyond
just
> > > hardware upgrades.
> >
> > This multi-tiered architecture makes it difficult to see where
the
> time
> > is
> > spent while waiting for transactions. My server is RARELY above
5%
> cpu
> > usage,
> > my hit rates are in the 90% range (who database in memory),
running
> GB
> > ethernet, but some things (like saving work orders) is awfully
> slow. Are
> > there
> > any tools that help determine where the time is spent on these
> > transactions?
> > Time on the client? Time in transit? Time on the server? Etc.
> >
> > I suspect that a lot of time is wasted marshalling and un-
> marshalling
> > data
> > to/from XML in the ADO.Net stack but I'm not sure how to improve
on
> > that.
> > Throwing hardware works for a while but it seems that there's a
lot
> of
> > room
> > for improvement.
> >
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > Mark W.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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Wow...7 hours...brutal. For that matter, 30 minutes seems brutal.

Guess I'll have to tell my users to stop complaining about the 45
seconds it takes now!

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of rstulce
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:53 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings



I don't think it's the same issue. The report isn't printing it just
goes
into the "processing" mode and stays there, we let one report run for 7
hours when it should take maybe 30 min. It's been working up to this
patch
and we're working with support on it now.

Randy Stulce

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
Mike Lowe
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:14 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

When you say the stock status is broke, can you elaborate? We're
getting ready to take a significant inventory write down because of the
inventory / stock status discrepancy and have been assured that it is
corrected on 6.1.540. I need to make sure that what you're seeing isn't
a continuation of a 6.1 problem that wasn't really corrected.

________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of rstulce
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:55 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

We updated a 8.00.811 last week. Other than an issue with the Stock
Status
report (it's broke) the performance has been the same as 810. So wait
until the report, or 811x patch, then you may be able to move up without
loosing performance. We are also a small manufacturer and I hate to jump
on
the performance band wagon but we have seen the same issues as everyone
else. I too spend allot of my time calming our users frustrations at
Vantage.

There is a bottleneck in Vantage performance somewhere, but I haven't
heard
Epicor acknowledge that there is nor that they are working on a
solution.

Thanks,

Randy Stulce

_____

From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of
John Walter
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:37 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am still running 6.1 but I understand one of the objectives of 8.03
was an
increase in performance over 8.0. Has this not been met?

John Walter | National IS Manager | Hufcor Pty Ltd
7 Trade Park Drive, Tullamarine Vic 3043
Phone +61 3 9330 3733 | Fax +61 3 9338 9015
Email john.w@hufcor. <mailto:john.w%40hufcor.com.au> com.au
www.hufcor.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Scott Litzau
Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2007 1:57 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

I am on 8.00.810c and every time this group talks about performance it
seems
to get worse as the Patch Levels go up. I was going to go to 8.00.811 in
a
couple of weeks and I am looking at 8.03.xxx but my users complain of
the
slowness now. If I upgrade to get he new features they will scream about
the
performance.

We are a small manufacturer that had 5 separate systems running what we
consolidated into Vantage, a blessing from an IT standpoint and the
visibility and historical perspective. I went through a lengthy
evaluation
time and then a group of key people choose Vantage over 4 other systems
for
the feature set and customization possibilities. In my environment I
continue to have to make my users see why we went with a new system.
They
are frustrated with the lack of performance, as am I.

I know that Epicor people monitor this group and all I have to say is
that
Epicor should be committed to rectifying performance issue we all have
seen
and experienced. Until they do that then having new features in an
upgraded
version is just not worth it. AND make us aware that you are aware of
the
situation and inform us what you are doing to improve it. Communicate,
communicate, communicate. It is so simple and would let us know you hear
our
concerns.

In the last few days, after reading all the posts regarding performance,
it
has become apparent that I need to take all my desktops to 2GB RAM, they
are
at 1GB now, maybe I should just max them to 4GB for XP (32 bit). I
thought
1GB at the time should be plenty, but it has become obvious that is not
so.
So besides the cost for Vantage I need to incur additional costs just to
make sure the user experience is tolerable. As a small manufacturer we
are
always watching costs, our margin for bad decisions is not as great as
larger manufacturers.

That's my rant.

Scott Litzau
IT Manager
Olympus Flag & Banner

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Joe Rojas
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:14 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

We are on 8.03.304C and each line added increases subsequent load times.

Thanks,

Joe Rojas

IT Manager

TNCO, Inc.

781-447-6661 x7506

jrojas@tnco- <mailto:jrojas%40tnco-inc.com> inc.com

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From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf
Of bw2868bond
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings

Well, the 'wheel' wants to keep my PC. No noticable difference
connecting pc between 100T and 1000T. The 3.0 GHz processor and 2 Gb
ram helped.

New problem noticed after moving from 809f to 811...
In POEntry, time to add line item to 65 line PO has increased
dramatically from 809f to 811. Support dwells on our customization of
the form but the slowdown is evident on the base module. Anyone else
notice performance slowdown with PO Entry on Many lined POs??

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<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Stephen Edginton" <stephene@...>
wrote:
>
> Keep us posted Bernie I have not found teaming on gigabit
connections to
> have any impact on speed for the clients might do some testing!
>
>
>
>
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
> Of bw2868bond
> Sent: 21 March 2007 16:10
> To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Performance Ramblings
>
>
>
> A few weeks back, I was looking into 'performance'. Being 'old
> school' I figured performance of the Vantage product depended
heavily
> on server horsepower. I watched CPU and network utilization of my
> workstation while locking a workorder. My P4 3 Ghz machine went to
> nearly 100% processor usage and network traffic had a large spike
as
> well. It took roughly 8 seconds to lock the job.
>
> I looked at the server with it's two nic ports and single cable....
> I connected a second cable from nic to hub and enabled 'teaming'
> effectivly doubling my nic speed. I performed the same lock process
> on my workstation and this time the network utilization increased
and
> finished in 4 seconds...
>
> My presumtion is I have a highly capable server loafing around
> waiting for the network and the clients to do all the work. My test
> network is only 100 baseT but even on the production network,
> improvement has been seen by nic teaming in a gigabit switched
> environment.
>
> Tomorrow I will be letting a 'squeaky wheel' use my workstation to
> see what kind of difference is evident
>
> >
> >
> > Scott writes:
> > >... We are on Vantage 8.00.810c and I am
> > > always looking for ways to improve client performance beyond
just
> > > hardware upgrades.
> >
> > This multi-tiered architecture makes it difficult to see where
the
> time
> > is
> > spent while waiting for transactions. My server is RARELY above
5%
> cpu
> > usage,
> > my hit rates are in the 90% range (who database in memory),
running
> GB
> > ethernet, but some things (like saving work orders) is awfully
> slow. Are
> > there
> > any tools that help determine where the time is spent on these
> > transactions?
> > Time on the client? Time in transit? Time on the server? Etc.
> >
> > I suspect that a lot of time is wasted marshalling and un-
> marshalling
> > data
> > to/from XML in the ADO.Net stack but I'm not sure how to improve
on
> > that.
> > Throwing hardware works for a while but it seems that there's a
lot
> of
> > room
> > for improvement.
> >
> > Just wondering...
> >
> > Mark W.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
>
>
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