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Re: Oracle 8i Solaris to Linux Slow Dbassist

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:00:51 +0100
Message-ID: <8s1oaf$2o4$1@soap.pipex.net>

Certainly both the installer and dbassist are Java products. I believe they also need large amounts of RAM for a workstation say 128mb.

HTH

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Warren Spencer" <wspencer_at_ap.nospam.org> wrote in message
news:su6gag23ogk9e8_at_news.supernews.com...

> gcaulton_at_sympatico.ca (Greg Caulton) wrote in <39E27183.C190AB52
> @sympatico.ca>:
>
> >btw, the trick seems to be to keep the window active and hold the mouse
> >button down for a 'long' click - at least thats what worked for me.
> >
> >taz wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I installed Oracle 8i on Solaris last night from home on my Red
> >> Hat 5.2 linux system. It was quite slow to go from screen to screen
> >> using the installer.
> >> Today I am trying to use dbassist - but it is extremely slow, and
> >> basically unusable. While I could use my sql scripts - I was quite
> >> keen to use this tool.
> >> I have an ADSL connection with typical download speeds of
> >> 78KB/sec - although upload speeds are typically a lot slower
> >> (10-15KB/sec) I did not expect this to be so poor?
> >> Does anyone have any ideas as to what is causing the slow down.
> >> Basically I click on a button, e.g. Next for the next page and it takes
> >> either many minutes - or hangs indefinitely unable to refresh. The
> >> installer was not much better, but did get to the next screen
> >> evenutally.
> >>
> >> thanks!
> >>
> >> Greg
> >
> >
>
> I had a similar experience installing on a Linux box from my W98
> workstation. It was horribly slow. dbassist performs equally badly. A
mouse
> click on the W98 box takes many seconds to register. Judging from the
> blinking of my network lights, it seemed as though there was a ton of
> network traffic between the two boxes when none was required. I suspect
> it's Java or JRE related.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> ws
>
> --
> << What if there were no hypothetical questions? >>
Received on Wed Oct 11 2000 - 08:00:51 CDT

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