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My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

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    My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

    Recently MY ISP began migrating my VMWARE 2008 Server to some new SANS arrangement. This became a performance nightware, which has come close to me being arrested for abuse and aggresion on a Manager of an an international company for there incompetence. (Long ugly Story)
    Anyhow also in this time I began seeking ways to boost the performance.
    With the disk migration I discovered that alpha 5 was not truly closing tables after using something like tbl.close(). It appears that while the table was closed, and could how be reopened exclusively, infact there still lingered a thread and handle to the SANS drive. This in turn would clutter the CPU process, slowing the CPU and then in turn bloat the Memory. AS the memory needed to page, and the SANS was already busy, this just meant everything just got worse.
    This seems to be a peculiarity to The SANS disk arangemnt.
    I reinstalled my homeserver and altered the name-server, and discovered that everything worked reasonable except I have slow upload speed from home, Which is why I went to VMWARE.
    Now the unexplained revelation,
    My principal code is aproximately 130,000 lines of A5 broken into 8 AJAX.a5w files. I'd say the server is 95% busy with AJAX.
    -
    By altering the standard code I have written I have discovered there is only one way to close the tables safely and easily and it is through the use
    of the END statement
    -
    Code:
    if action = "Dostuff"
    Dim TBL as P
    TBL = table.open("testTable.dbf)
    
    ''' Do statements etc
    
    [B]END[/B]
    end if
    it is that simple!

    I have moved back to the VMWARE server and the speed, response, is incredibly better. I was going to upgrade to the Ver10 Server for speed, but it will no longer be necessary.

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    Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

    hi ColinJD,

    How to deal the same in case of SQL server 2000.
    the steps i fallow to deal with sql server DB as fallows
    dim dbconn as sql::connection
    dim RsGetData as sql::Resultset

    dbconn.open("::name::SQlconnectionName")
    dbconn.execute("select name from empmaster where code=12")
    RsGetData=dbconn.resultset

    ...... statements


    dbconn.close()
    (eventhough i use dbconn.close() the connection exists with sql...)

    Thanks

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      #3
      Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

      From my experience
      simply changing

      dbconn.close()
      END

      It would be nice to know though what was really causing the memory/performance problems.

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        #4
        Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

        Hi
        we developed ERP System and implemented in our company using alpha Five V9. now i am doing after implementation work.

        I noticed system running very slow, i restarted sql server then checked the speed of ERP system it remains same. when i restarted Alpha Five server the speed of the system got boosted only for few hours.(memory usage of the Alpha five was keep on increasing very fast)


        when i checked the SPID created by sql server was very vast(more then 3000 spid's) and then just for testing i created an a5w page with open database connection for executing on simple query and close at the end,
        when i executed this page the process id in sql server got created and even though i closed the entire browser the SPID in sql server retained, and it gets cleared only when
        i restarted Alpha Five server.

        so is there way to close the connection(which clears SPID in sql server).

        this is very urgent.



        Thanks.

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          #5
          Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

          Colin,

          I wish I was getting the results you describe.

          I have been getting real problems with memory going up when a page is loaded and then not being released when the process is over. I made sure that every table is closed, every index is dropped, AND added END to the "end" of the script. Nope - does not release the memory. In one page, for example, there is a dialog with xbasic just in the Initialize event. Every time the user opens this page, the RAM goes up by about 2,000 bytes, and is not released upon exiting the page either. If users go to this page 50 times, the RAM thus will increase by approx 100,000 bytes! And that's just for that page!

          This is a HUGE problem. Yesterday, alwaysup restarted 6 times because I have it set to restart whenever the CPU is hogged or if more than a certain amount of RAM is used for longer than a certain period of time. This caused many users a lot of frustration, as not only did tha app seem very slow, but they lost their work each time the server was restarted.

          Is there a solution to this????????
          Gary S. Traub, Ph.D.

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            #6
            Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

            Gary,
            Can you Private Message me the code of the Initialize event,
            Also are you having any MPX.files created in you Database directory?

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              #7
              Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

              Hi folks,

              Is there a resolution for this problem yet?

              RB

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                #8
                Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

                I have many .MPX files in my directory. All are exactly 3KB. I've been periodically "cleaning" them out. I used to back them up first.

                Are you stating that instead of tbl.close() we should use the word, "END?"
                Eric

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                  #9
                  Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

                  Eric,
                  I would suggest using tbl.close() always.
                  Because thats what it is designed for.
                  However for some reason it obviously was not truly closing my tables, and END has done it (for me).
                  So I'm using both.!
                  I guess there is also a really good chance that I have been doing something else incorrectly, and END has just done a good clean up.
                  -
                  The MPX files have something to do with not dropping a query correctly,
                  I strongly suspect that this also gobbles up memory and resources.
                  Most of my MPX problems I have solved using query.drop(), But I still have some persisting.

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                    #10
                    Re: My HUGE perfomance boost to ver 9, WAS

                    I think the WAS is using native shared connection [pooling] for SQLServers.
                    That means there is no need to close the connection for each SQL State. It leeds to more overhead on the WAS and DB. The good balance is to take a look and the DB Manager MEM blocks SPINS read and write Cache memory indexes etc, allow as most as you memory to the database, even better put the database by heavy use on a seperate machine. For the WAS enable. Test the performance of the WAS Threads and max connections allowed per connection.

                    Eric

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