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Conference azur::mcc

Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

80.0. "MCC loading as X-client?" by DWOVAX::LICAUSE (Al Licause) Wed Mar 21 1990 15:54

    Does anyone have any feel for what sort of load DECmcc would place on
    a larger VAX when used as a DECwindows client?
    
    I've read the white paper on VT1000 Performance regarding X
    applications by Steve Bennett.  I believe he lists a table of
    the approximate number of VT1000 users that would be reasonable
    on various system types for a DECwrite application.
    
    Does anyone have a feel for how MCC compares to a DECwrite application
    with regard to CPU loading?
    
    If this turns out to be a rather sizeable resource hog, it would be
    good to know so that when a customer asks if MCC can/should be run
    on their large system or member of a cluster, we could recommend
    for or against such use, preferring to keep the application on a
    workstation.
    
    Along these lines, when you run MCC as a window client, how does this
    effect licensing?
    
    Does the license cost change based on the number of users that can
    access a client, or any client for that matter?
    
    Any help appreciated.
    
    Al
    
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80.1INFO - not yet availableGOSTE::CALLANDERWed Mar 21 1990 20:3819
    That's a lot of questions. I will attempt to address the easy ones
    and leave things like pricing and licensing to some one else.
    
    Right now the Iconic Map PM is not yet in external field test. Until
    that time our local systems (the big ones) won't install it, so
    we haven't run the type of tests and generated estimates on performance
    and load yet. We have had a number of requests along these lines
    for MCC in general and are working on enhancing performance as well
    as getting some concrete benchmarks for the current performance.
    When more information is known/available it will be published.
    
    One thing to remember with MCC, different from applications like
    DECwrite, is that depending upon what you are doing your load can
    drastically differ. An example would be if you set up a large number
    of alarms running while at the same time started doing a lot of
    intensive work from the user interface as will (like processing
    all attributes for all entities in a bridges forwarding database).