Re: Press release: BookMasters go live on OpenQM

On Mar 6, 8:59 am, sh <sham...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ross Ferris wrote:
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I think the more significant fact is that the old hardware was a PIII
with 1Gb RAM - new system is quad core Xeon with 8Gb RAM

This harware generational leap is VERY significant .... last month we
upgraded/migrated a client from similar hardware to quad-core CPU &
4Gb RAM (2.5Gb RAM limit &all that) & mirrored SAS drives, still
within D3 environment.

We didn't have reports that were taking a day to generate, but did
have reductions from 4 hours to 5 minutes.

The other side of the coin though is that as I understand it, QM can
actually USE all of 8Gb RAM in the new system!

So now that everyone has congratulated themselves for a stupendous
upgrade, I'd like to know what percentage of this stupendous upgrade was
due to the hardware upgrade, and what percentage was due to the relative
merits of QM vs D3. What would D3 have been like on the same hardware?

The silence is deafening.

You would get a large increase in performance. I do not know how much
memory you could actually use - not sure if it has a 2 gig limit.
It is very difficult to determine without lots of testing to determine
how much of the increase was due to hardware, os or qm.
The important thing that I was trying to get across is that QM is now
a much easier environment for those that want to port their D3
products over to it.
There have been many enhancements made to QM that will allow someone
to over to QM and feel a lot less pain about the change.

Eugene
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