Hi There

When running DBMan on my PC with benchmarking I get the following return When running on Sun Sparc Server 20 with Solaris 2.5.1, 196 mb RAM and Netscape Enterprise Webserver (Perl 5.004) for exactly the same: "Processing Time: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.88 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.88 CPU)"

page I get "Processing Time: 24 wallclock secs ( 0.79 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.79 CPU)"

Any Idea what the problem can be?

How can the high Wallclock Secs vs CPU time be interpreted.

Thanks in advance

Robin Twiggs

I think this is another "Alex" problem. I'm afraid I can't help you with it.


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JPD

Alex,

I was wondering why Benchmarking does not work on NT. Is there a work-around??

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Please excuse my resubmitting : I notice my first submission came out garbled.

When running DBMan on my PC with benchmarking I get the following return "Processing Time: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.88 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.88 CPU)"

When running on Sun Sparc Server 20 with Solaris 2.5.1, 196 mb RAM and Netscape Enterprise Webserver (Perl 5.004) for exactly the same page I get: "Processing Time: 24 secs ( 0.79 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.79 CPU)"

Any Idea what the problem can be(24 secs)?

How can the high Wallclock Secs vs CPU time be interpreted.

Thanks in advance

Robin Twiggs

 
It should as long as you have Benchmark.pm installed. It won't work on Win95, but should on NT. Try the latest version of perl from Activestate.



This can be a little misleading as it includes download time. When running on PC, the output is displayed really quickly, but if you run it remotely through a slow modem then the counter doesn't stop until all the info is transferred.

Perhaps it's just the connection is slow? Does it start transferring information right away?

Cheers,

Alex

Alex,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did install the latest build of PERL from ActiveState (I think it was build 5.003). I will check to see if I have the Benchmark.pm and put it in our library directory.

Oops...We have PERL 5.005 installed. I did find the benchmark.pm file and will be testing it to see if it works.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
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Anthro TECH, L.L.C
http://www.anthrotech.com/
info@anthrotech.com
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http://www.coco.cc.az.us/
Web Technology
Coordinator
elee@coco.cc.az.us

[This message has been edited by Eliot (edited July 06, 1999).]

Thanks Alex

I have noticed that the discrepancy in speed is directly proportional to the traffic experienced by the Server.

I noticed your response to Elliot above. With Activestate Perl 5.004 benchmarking works on Win 95 and Win 98. Something else I noticed is that I don't have to set $flock to 0 - I dont know whether file locking is working, but it does not generate errors in the above config.

Okay, Alex...I found the benchmark.pm and moved it to an executable directory under the cgi-bin directory. I have tried a variety of different "require" statements and none of them seem to work.


BTW: Here is the error message I receive:


How do I call the benchmark.pm file from the default.cgi (index.cgi in my case) file???

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Eliot Lee
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Anthro TECH, L.L.C
http://www.anthrotech.com/
info@anthrotech.com
==========================
Coconino Community College
http://www.coco.cc.az.us/
Web Technology
Coordinator
elee@coco.cc.az.us

[This message has been edited by Eliot (edited July 08, 1999).]

[This message has been edited by Eliot (edited July 08, 1999).]