From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8ae637be9dba997 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,8ae637be9dba997 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: nospam@somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White) Subject: Re: IDE/Rational Apex experiences Date: 1997/11/08 Message-ID: <642o4f$ho0$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 288508468 References: <6429gb$5qh@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> Organization: designing/implementing avionics during the day Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6429gb$5qh@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>, bklungle@ix.netcom.com says... > >At a certain large AeroSpace company, use of Rational Apex was mandated by >management. There are 27 programmers trying to develop a very large ground >based processing system using C and C++. When 4 users log onto the Rational >Apex system, the response time on the network increases to around 20 >minutes. 20 minutes for what? What are you running Apex on? How about a rule of thumb to have 64 MB per user and no more than 6 users on a Sun SPARC Ultra. Are all of your ethernet phone closet hubs switch capable? IME the use of Apex running on a SPARC box using a 486-66 PC running X over a reasonable "switched" smart ethernet network (with the SPARCs scattered around the workgroups) works pretty well for basic editing, version control check in/out, compiling and building. And yes we also use local IDE's like Aonix's or even Microsoft Visual C++'s and do not find any significant speed differences. Of course if everyone used dual 300 Mhz Pentium II PC's I'm sure we would see a big difference. I am curious, just what do your 27 users each have in front of them and what actually runs Rational Apex at your site? We have over well over 300+ Apex user licenses at the business campus where I work. My biggest problem with X over the network is to get a double click mouse click action to work - seems like I have to do about four or five mouse clicks in a row. Find myself using the right mouse menu instead. _____________________________________________________________________ Robert S. White -- An embedded systems software engineer e-mail reply to reverse of: ia us lib cedar-rapids crpl shift2 whiter