Don't trust it

Have way too little experience with the issues involved.
So I'll run the program I found during several installs and see if it make sense.
I'll also see if there are any commercial programs that claim to to the same.
I'm not above paying for a utility that does it, written by someone with years of experience in the area.

Here is the issue:

We have a commercial package running as a spooling server.
We develop programs that use it over the course of a month.
It might take WEEKS to test the various programs that use it when it is upgraded.
But we might be forced to upgrade it for a particular problem, which we don't care about for the other programs using it.
This means I need multiple versions of the software running on that server, or I need multiple servers, one for each version.
I might need a DOZENS of versions active at the same time within a couple of years. If 3 people spend 2 months working on a system that requires a particular version of the software, there is NO WAY that particular application will be modified to fit a new version of the spooler. Multiply that by 1/2 dozen teams of people, adding a couple more teams every few months.
Oh, and each server costs about $12,000, plus about $5K for the software license.

Post #197,397 by broomberg 3/6/05 3:33:01 PM Reply	Don't trust it Have way too little experience with the issues involved. So I'll run the program I found during several installs and see if it make sense. I'll also see if there are any commercial programs that claim to to the same. I'm not above paying for a utility that does it, written by someone with years of experience in the area. Here is the issue: We have a commercial package running as a spooling server. We develop programs that use it over the course of a month. It might take WEEKS to test the various programs that use it when it is upgraded. But we might be forced to upgrade it for a particular problem, which we don't care about for the other programs using it. This means I need multiple versions of the software running on that server, or I need multiple servers, one for each version. I might need a DOZENS of versions active at the same time within a couple of years. If 3 people spend 2 months working on a system that requires a particular version of the software, there is NO WAY that particular application will be modified to fit a new version of the spooler. Multiply that by 1/2 dozen teams of people, adding a couple more teams every few months. Oh, and each server costs about $12,000, plus about $5K for the software license.
Post #197,400 by Arkadiy 3/6/05 4:04:44 PM Reply	VmWare? -- And what are we doing when the two most powerful nations on earth -- America and Israel -- stomp on the elementary rights of human beings? -- letter to the editor from W. Ostermeier, Liechtenstein
Post #197,402 by broomberg 3/6/05 4:35:22 PM Reply	Too slow VMWare overhead was about 30% when I tested it. The spooling process is almost 100% CPU. Typical spool job goes for 1 to 5 minutes. I run up to 3 at the same time, and I might have hundreds in the queue. Right now I am running on a dual opteron, but can put another 2 CPUs if I need to. I am unwilling to sacrifice the CPU unless I REALLY have to.

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