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Open up the netfinity manager software that came with the box. Go to
system monitor and bring up the counters for network performance. This
will let you know what traffic is on the line. There are many factors
as to why the Netfinity may perform differently than the
Intellistation.
1. The graphics card is much less powerful  in the server. Got to
www.pc.ibm.com/support and download the latest drivers.
2. Go into the raid manager and check to see what the raid parameters
are set to. Check for write through vs write back.
3. Your performance will increase if you shift to a raid 1 mirror set
for the OS. That server is a single backplane scis bus and will not
support duplexing,
4. As for the NT portion, install SP 5

Jerry
Netfinity Systems Engineer, IBM Corp.
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:07:44 GMT, noone@bellsouth.net (Jim) wrote:

>It feels like it must be in the drive subsystem, if the rest of the hardware and
>the software config is so identical.
>
>Why RAID 0 on the two 4.5G's, which I assume are system drives? Can they be set
>up as RAID 1? 
>
>Are all the drives on the same SCSI Channel? If so, can they be seperated onto
>two channels? In general, I'd look closely at the SCSI config.
>
>JimR
>
>
>Moshe <moshem@email.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>
>>I created an TCP/IP Server that accepts connections from about 300 sockets
>>and keeps them alive , when one socket sends a request the app understande it
>>, query a local Infomix server , takes the data and send it over back via the
>>same socket.
>>
>>
>>I have used I/O completion ports ( Windows NT ) to implement the I/O requrest
>>queues .
>>
>>I developend the app on a IBM Intellistation with 2 Intel Pentium III 500
>>cpu's and 256MB of RAM , it worked great , the entire process takes about
>>20-45 ms for each request-query-send cycle!
>>
>>Now I bought a larger server configuration for my actual platform , it's an
>>IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 , with 2 Intel Pentium III 500 XEON 512KB cpu's and
>>same configuration for the other components as the Intellistation.
>>
>>the only difference is the RAID card that is suppose to be stronger on the
>>netfinty.
>>
>>
>>to my horror , I found at first that I got 500ms for the enitre process !! I
>>reinstaled all the hardware and software and now I get ~90ms.
>>
>>still , I pointed it out no to be an informix problem ( at least with the
>>query ) that is the same time.
>>
>>What I did notice is the recieve cycle ( actuall made out of select , recv )
>>takes twice the time , and the send cycle take about the same .
>>
>>I disable the onboard adapter and installed an Intel PRO 100  , the results
>>are the same.
>>
>>this is the nefinity configuration :
>>
>>
>>Netfinity 5500 M20
>>
>>2 x CPU Pentium III 500 XEON 512K
>>
>>256MB RAM ECC
>>
>>OnBoard AMD Fault Tolorent Adapter 10/100
>>    also tried Intel Pro 100 PCI
>>
>>2 x 4.5GB HDD , one logical drive ,config as Raid 0
>>
>>40GB Hdd's , one logical drive , config as Raid 5
>>
>>Windows NT 4 SP 4 ( 1-4 cpu edition )
>>
>>Informix 7.30
>>
>>IE 4
>>
>>ALL services are idential
>>all system parameters are identical.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>can some one give me a hint of what is going on , why a huge server can't get
>>the same results as a workstation that costs half as much ?
>>
>>
>>any help is greatly appreciated !
>>
>>Moshe
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