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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: "bklungle" Subject: Re: IDE/Rational Apex experiences Date: 1997/11/10 Message-ID: <647cv8$1lf@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 288341298 References: <6429gb$5qh@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> <642o4f$ho0$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: B & D Associates X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Nov 10 10:32:40 AM CST 1997 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-10T10:32:40-06:00 List-Id: To answer your questions as best I can: 1. From the time you press the enter key to a query to the return of the prompt. 2. Apex is running on an SGI/Indigo2 with 128MB ram 3. All users are using SGI/Indigo2(s) 4. Don't know about the closet but will check if you really think it means anything. 5. They are using all kinds of IDEs also (including MSVC++5.0). 6. The network is 10MB TP Ethernet. bob >>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 >