Performance tip - $root.$prefs.$maxCacheClasses

[Jean Marc Azerad]

Thanks to both Stene and Doug for those tips,
And thank you to Udo too for his crazy lib

JM


> Le 22 déc. 2014 à 08:43, Sten-Erik Björling <s-e.bjorling at enviro.se> a écrit :
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> Hi all,
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> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Another tip that can be useful for those of us who are developing web apps etc. is to set the timeslice value down from 20 to 1 or 2. A timeslice value of 20 means that an task will take a minimum of one third of a second ( a tick is a 60th of a second ) and this will hamper app and web services servers a bit since most operations in an optimized Omnis application will take significantly less.
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> $root.$prefs.$timeslice
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> Stene
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> ______
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>> 22 dec 2014 kl. 05:06 skrev Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com>:
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>> hi all:
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>> I was playing around with our Omnis Studio library on the weekend - which has some 3000+ classes in it.   It performs really well, but I hit a small snag trying to make it perform well under the scenario where the library was not on the same drive as the application…   There is a reason that I want the library on a server (macintish - network user situation)
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>> performance went down - dismally.
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>> and then I discovered my saviour — a preference that can be set at run time.
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>> $root.$prefs.$maxCacheClasses
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>> initally it was set to 300 (as it has been for years)…. and so I set it up at 5000 - just for giggles.      After the initial load of my library by the omnis runtime, I got a bunch of performance back because more of the classes are being stored in ram.
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>> so if you are not aware of this setting — its worth knowing.
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>> you can also look at
>> sys(190) - to see the number of classes loaded by the runtime and
>> sys(191) - to see the number of classes discarded out of cache
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>> its really a lot faster if your app is not discarding classes out of the cache because $root.$prefs.$maxCacheClasses is set too low.
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>> thats my learning for the weekend.   hope it helps somebody.
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>> 
>> Doug Easterbrook
>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
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