Re: Startup overhead with v1 and v2u but not v2c?

Roger Books (books@mail.state.fl.us)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 08:31:26 -0400 (EDT)

> I expect there to be some overhead with opening and closing sessions, and
> I do observe a curve in the plotted data indicating an initial startup
> cost (Im assuming this is some sort of caching on the agent side), but NOT
> with v2c. Im wondering if this is Tcl acting funny or if there are
> significant differences between the v1, v2u and v2c code. Can anyone
> explain what is going on here (or at least suggest if it is the manager or
> agent that is creating the lag)?
>
> If anyone would like to see data or code, let me know, I would be happy to
> pass it along. Oh, BTW, this doesnt happen if I leave the connection open
> and time the GETs I do of sysUpTime.

Are you sure you aren't getting hit with system overhead? Some of the long
times you give look reasonable for something being paged back in from
disk.

Roger

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