Thanks for your help! I'll do a lot of testing.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett McCoy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: 'John Peterson'
> Subject: RE: Perl, Nice, and CPU Usage
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: John Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:59 AM
> >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> >Subject: RE: Perl, Nice, and CPU Usage
> >
> >
> >Because this is on a test box there is nothing else running at
> >the time. The
> >intention is to have it be user requested through a web
> >browser. But right
> >now I'm just running it from the command line. Only one person
> >would run it
> >at a time and only about once a week or so. I just want to
> >make sure that
> >when it does go on a production box that it will let other
> >processes go in
> >front of it and won't crash the server or anything.
>
> Probably wouldn't crash the server. The only way to know, of course, is
> to
> do some unit testing in a simulated production environment -- run some
> load
> testing software against your test server and try to run your report. It
> might take longer to run, but it should yield to other processes (like the
> web server) in an appropriate manner. This kind of thing probably won't
> even make a Sun box blink. Your idle time goes down so much because only
> one thing is utilizing the CPU and it will use as much as the system wants
> to give it (and connecting to two databases and crunching a bunch of data
> can be pretty processor intensive).
>
> -- Brett
