I had this thought, too - since the Mercator pricing is per CPU, it seems you get more and more for you money as the chips get faster and faster.
I believe you were addressing Gentran however. I can offer some tips for more speed:
1. I/O seems to be a limitation, use a RAID array for disk speed.
2. I think the database is a bottleneck. I put the database on its own spearate physical disk and saw a nice improvement- less contention with the Gentran application's file activity.
3. If you don't use a distributed system, you might change the paths from network paths to local drive paths (i.e. change '\\Gentran' to 'e:\') (I didn't benchmark this, but it seemed a little faster for not running everything through network layer code)
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EDI & ANY to XML translator - opinions wanted
Brian,
You seem very knowledgable about this. What would moving up to one of
the new 733-750 MHz machines do. Would that provide any relief or would
it be negligible? I am assuming of course that such a machine is not
being used now. Let's just assume a 400 Mhz CPU.
brian lehrhoff wrote:
> Mentor and Director are the same - small files flow, large files
> choke. The only way to achieve throughput on the PC platform is to
> feed a steady stream of small files. I can't tell you the optimum
> size for Director, but Mentor seems to top out at 700-800K per flat
> file. The Unix flavor of Mentor does not have this "problem".
>
> Mercator would be a good choice for your solution, but keep in mind
> that Mercator will read and validate your entire input file before
> writing. Make sure your production machine has plenty of memory
> (fastest) or disk (slower) for the work files. Same caveat prevails -
> smaller input files run faster.
>
> Outsourcing? Glad to talk to you about it. Also glad to give you a
> straight answer to your question :)
>
> Anthony Beecher wrote:
>
--
Glenn Thompson
Programmer/Analyst
American Trouser, Inc.
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