RE: FLASH: SiteCheck-Gen2 CPU Hit Question

[Larry Eisenstein]

Hi David,

Thanks so much for responding. It's greatly appreciated. I am shooting

>David wrote

>Actually quite a few sites are having success with Generator 2 on NT.  We

>will be publishing a performance white paper with a lot of stats about

>performance on various systems fairly soon and that should give you a good

>benchmark against what to expect.


That's great news.


>Also, Generator performance scales along

>with number of processors...if you are on a single CPU NT server you might

>want to look at a dual or quad CPU server.


This is no help. We just dropped $5,000 cdn dollars and find we get no

phone support from Macromedia, a wafer thin crib note manual, and a product

that bogs down our site. I'm sorry but buying more expensive licenses is not

a solution. Even in test mode with 0 traffic we are having the same

slowdown.


At the sales seminar we were pitched that Gen2 would save us time and money.

Are we inplementing it incorrectyl by having the ticker animating freely on

the

site. There are 6 variables in one symbol and there are 3-4 instances up at

a

time. Is this asking too much. Should we have the ticker parked and visitor

operated with rollovers and clicks. Is that the recommended solution.

Or all things being organized properly should this be able to function

adequately on a solid-average powered system?


Thanks,

Larry


>Robert Alexander wrote:

>Larry mentioned:

>

>>...a sports ticker using Gen2 [in] a flash movie exported

>>as Flash3 and the CPU demand jumped from 40% to %100 on NT. I was

wondering if this is

>>typical.

>>http://www.fantasyteam.com/index2.htm

>

>I'm afraid so, Larry. As long as you're using NT, at least. It just can't

handle the demands. (Don't EVER try to install both a file server and a

print server on NT - it just chokes.)

>

>If you need to handle any kind of serious traffic, you need to get a

serious OS: Solaris, Unix, Linux, etc. There's reasons why the big sites

use these and not NT.



Hi,


-David

Macromedia



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