50% of the speed of the Cobalt Raq3 box:-(

[Mark A Bennett <pbb_mb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear WebTen users,

Hi, I have run my WebTen server now for about 18 months and I must 
say what an excellent and stable box it has proved to be with only 
the very rare need to restart. I also run Filemaker on the same box. 
The most frequent cause of crash's is (always) me fiddling with pearl 
scripts:-)

I have now become a BIG fan of 'webdata' and would recommend that any 
of you out there who need a basic on-line database system with access 
to most of features you would expect to be able to fiddle with, but 
not all,  then take a look:

http://webteacher.com/webdata/

I run this pearl script on two servers, one a 300 mhz G3 Mac (140 
Meg'ish  Ram) and the other a Cobalt Raq3 (150 mhz with 16 meg RAM!), 
the Cobalt server was the first to have the script installed on it 
and golly, it runs real fast and with database (s) of over 3000-5000 
records (OK tiny to most of you!) it runs really quite well. This 
prompted me to run the script on the Mac + WebTen, with the view to 
replacing the filemaker side of the box......oh dear, it runs fine 
but is about 50% of the speed of the Raq3 box.

Q. Can I make a pearl script go faster?

If just use the WebTen box for this ONLY (ie this would be the ONLY 
function of the Box) how can I set it to go as fast as it can when 
running the script, to hell with any other function...can I play with 
nice values or some such ?

Anyone any clues?

What is it about the Mac Box+WebTen that makes a script so much slower?

Regards

Mark.
--
Mark Bennett
(Biological Sciences)
Imperial College at Wye
University of London
Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5AH, U.K.
Tel.:  +44 (0)1233 812401   Extension: 388

Email:  mark.bennett@xxxxxxxx

"The box said "Requires Windows 98, or better".
  "So I bought a Macintosh".

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