Cheers Jack.....
Yeah aour developers get new boxes every year or so, ....so they tend to have
the horse power anyway...
Andy
"Repenning, Jack" <jrepenning@catapulse.com> on 25/02/2000 17:21:34
To: Andrew Mcdonagh/MAIN/MC1@MCMAIN, cciug@Rational.Com
cc:
Subject: RE: [cciug] WinNT View servers.
> Would having a view server with all views on (i.e. no clients with local
views)
> have any build performance increases?
My experience is that local views are much faster than separate view-server
views, especially on NT.
> As they wouldn't have to go across the
> network, when comparing DOs.
The cost of DO shopping is chatter between client clearmake and VOB server,
not the other views (the config recs are stored in the VOB, and delivered to
the requesting client for evaluation). Once a DO is selected, there's some
view<->view chat, but the really expensive part is view<->VOB still (the
promotion of the view-local DO to the VOB's d-pool).
The only argument that leads to an advantage for separate view servers is if
you decide to give all the developers wimpy machines, and beef up the
smaller number of view servers. But even here, this is far less likely an
NT scenario (where there's relatively little spread between cheap desktops
and top-end servers) than UNIX (where the spread can be very wide). And
wimping the developers is "penny-wise, pound-foolish" anyway.
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