Need HELP badly. AREV so slow (AREV Specific)
At 09 NOV 1998 11:41:12AM Albert Hawking wrote:
DOS workstation connecting to NT4.0 slows down terribly as number of users increased. No NPP whatsoever, just plain AREV 3.12. Is there a quick and easy solution here?
Thks in advanced.
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Apart from "Yield Time To Windows" in the environment and installing the NT Service?
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At 10 NOV 1998 03:20PM Cameron Revelation wrote:
Albert,
DOS workstation connecting to NT4.0 slows down terribly as number of users increased. No NPP whatsoever, just plain AREV 3.12. Is there a quick and easy solution here?
Yes, if you are using Arev 2.03 or later, the Revelation NT Service should speed up multi-user access signficantly. In the USA, call customer service at (800)262-4747 for more information.
Otherwise, you will need more network bandwidth (go 100mbit) and a faster machine with more memory for NT (NT is dog slow). Alternatively you could use Netware. (And with the Revelation NLM, Netware simply screams!)
Cameron Purdy
Revelation Software
At 13 NOV 1998 05:00PM Larry Wilson wrote:
It might be prudent to mention here that a PC-type magazine (I don't recall which one) did an extensive memory/WindowsNT test and found that for a single processor machine, performance improved dramatically with each addition up to 128 MB, whereupon the performance slope became the performance plane (flat) as memory increased. This is to to the raw bytes of memory addressable by the Pentium.
After checking memory, be sure that your NT disk cache is sized correctly for the drives that have AREV, WINNT and the TEMP files, and if possible, use a different physical drive for all TEMP files (including Explorer and Netscape). Additionally, for AREV, I make a directory called AREVLOC on the TEMP drive, and make a file called TEMP on AREVLOC in (no dict). I then go into REVMEDIA and change it's name to SYSTEMP so that all system uses of SYSTEMP stay local. Also, make sure the SORT path is to a local drive.
You could also put your VOC on all local drives since it should hardly ever change, and the file CACHE routine that one of RTI's employess wrote (Steve, maybe?) would really help out as long as you're not caching data or ! files (VOC, SYSOBJ, your OBJ file, etc. are OK)
I have also found that manually setting the /M:4096 /X flags and making sure that DOS has plenty of spare ENVIRONMENT space are important for getting the most out of AREV.
While NPP may help performance, I haven't had the chance to clock it against an AREV set up the way I do it, but I would find it interesting to see such a test since my setup relieves a lot of the network traffic that the NPP is supposed to handle.
I hope this helps.
Larry Wilson