From: wspencer@ap.nospam.org (Warren Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle Subject: Re: Oracle 8i Solaris to Linux Slow Dbassist Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:18:24 -0000 Organization: The Associated Press Message-ID: References: <39E20115.14BDEE11@sympatico.ca> <39E27183.C190AB52@sympatico.ca> User-Agent: Xnews/03.04.11 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 44 gcaulton@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? >>