Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-10-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 09/25/2013 01:19 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: Obviously, I don't expect Catalyst to speak for other vendors. But I hope that all the vendors in the community are as dedicated to sharing as you are and I look forward to seeing more of what you've developed while working with KCLS. Certainly other

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Rylander
detail on any of these items now, feel free to reach out > to me. You have my cell phone number. > > > > Thanks > > > > Scott Myers > > > > > > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.geo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-09-25 Thread Rogan Hamby
P.S. I hit send too soon. I really appreciate the response Scott. I look forward to seeing some of the information you referenced and am glad to see that Jed at KCLS was still committed to sharing. If it can be reasonably forward ported to the community Evergreen is obviously what I am hopin

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-09-25 Thread Rogan Hamby
> From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of > Rogan Hamby > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:10 AM > To: Joshua D. Drake > Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-09-25 Thread Scott Myers
. Drake Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-09-24 Thread Rogan Hamby
Picking back up an old thread... I was hoping at some point to hear more about the db work Command Prompt has done for KCLS and perhaps see some work in git. I was sad to see that in the new LJ article that Jed Moffitt said that at this point KCLS has forked Evergreen so I suppose the work Catalys

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-08-22 Thread Rogan Hamby
Hi Joshua, I don't know if you had a chance to see my message below so I'll copy you in directly as well and maybe touch base again after labor day. With the Evergreen community having a rich collection of input from various contributors (many like yourself paid to do individual development by co

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-08-09 Thread Rogan Hamby
HI Josh, Can you share with folks some more specifics? For example: In regards to optimizing the conf file can you share what kind of optimizations and the benchmarks? E.g. with X records we see Y performance in activity Z. A lot of other changes obviously touch on changes to code and/or schem

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 08/07/2013 10:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote: I'm guessing maybe Joshua doesn't keep track of the list serv but is there someone else from Command Prompt or whomever they did the development work for that could chime in? When he says they've made improvements do those include GPLed code? Sorry f

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-08-07 Thread Rogan Hamby
I'm guessing maybe Joshua doesn't keep track of the list serv but is there someone else from Command Prompt or whomever they did the development work for that could chime in? When he says they've made improvements do those include GPLed code? On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-07-29 Thread Rogan Hamby
Hi Joshua, This is digging up an old thread but I've been digging into QA issues and looking at trying to define what areas and fields of research might have the most impact for SCLENDS. Frankly, some matter more to us than others. Is the work that you / Command Prompt done available in a public

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-03-22 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
one great release a year than two per year that have issues along with the improvements. Stephen From: Mike Rylander [mailto:mrylan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Cc: Elfstrand, Stephen F Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergre

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-03-01 Thread Jason Stephenson
I just want to point out that the purpose of this email chain and the page on the dokuwiki (http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:testing:performance_issues) are not to provide detailed or actionable bug reports. The point is for people to indicate where they perceive there to be

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-03-01 Thread Kathy Lussier
Thank you for contributing to the discussion Stephen! I'll defer to Jason and Mike's expertise on how database communications are handled, but in terms of improving queries to optimize performance, I do see this as something that a performance analysis should address. Following up on Mike's re

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Quoting Mike Rylander : > > And speaking as another of the developers, I'd love to see evidence of >> problems (really -- we can't address issues without it). New features and >> > > The point of the performance analysis is to gather th

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting Mike Rylander : And speaking as another of the developers, I'd love to see evidence of problems (really -- we can't address issues without it). New features and The point of the performance analysis is to gather that information. -- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jason Stephenson wrote: > Quoting "Elfstrand, Stephen F" : > > there are a lot of direct calls to the database from the client, >> > > Speaking as one of the developers, I have to correct the above statement. > No such thing happens in Evergreen. The client canno

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 02/28/2013 07:22 AM, Elfstrand, Stephen F wrote: In speaking to several Evergreen users one of the points made was that there are a lot of direct calls to the database from the client, that the queries are not designed to optimize performance and could be improved. I'd like to see this is

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting "Elfstrand, Stephen F" : there are a lot of direct calls to the database from the client, Speaking as one of the developers, I have to correct the above statement. No such thing happens in Evergreen. The client cannot talk directly to the database, it goes through OpenSRF which han

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-28 Thread Elfstrand, Stephen F
In speaking to several Evergreen users one of the points made was that there are a lot of direct calls to the database from the client, that the queries are not designed to optimize performance and could be improved. I'd like to see this issue investigated. Another observation is that that it s

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 02/20/2013 11:10 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi all, Kathy, We have been working heavily with a rather large library (which I am not sure if I can name so I will leave it at that right now). We have found many performance areas to improve (and have) for Evergreen. We are consultants and w

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

2013-02-20 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, I wasn't sure if I should add this to the QA discussion, but it seemed worthy of its own thread. During the "future of the staff client" meeting, I advocated for bringing in a consultant to do a software performance analysis for Evergreen to help us identify where the critical bottle