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Call Thread on HP-UX 11.31 BOE vs MCOE

  • March 20, 2012
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 March 2012]

I use a CALL THREAD statement (on a main processing program) to execute another program solely to accept a Cancel button so that one can terminate the main processing program at anytime by pressing the Cancel button! The above programs run on the following environments:
Server: HP-UX 11iv3 AcuConnect 7.2
Client: Win XP/2003/2008/Vista/7 AcuThinClient 7.2
Test 1: Install & run the processing program on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 7seconds to complete the processing!
Test 2: Install & run the same processing program on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the same processing!
Test 3: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing
Test 4: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing

From the above test results, it shows that Call Thread doesn't work well on HP-UX 11.31 BOE!
Has anyone come across this problem? Any ways to make HP-UX 11.31 BOE to achieve the same processing speed like MCOE?
Alternatively, is there a better way to achieve the process termination feature besides using Call Thread?
Thanks.

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    Stephen Hjerpe
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    • March 20, 2012

    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 March 2012]

    I use a CALL THREAD statement (on a main processing program) to execute another program solely to accept a Cancel button so that one can terminate the main processing program at anytime by pressing the Cancel button! The above programs run on the following environments:
    Server: HP-UX 11iv3 AcuConnect 7.2
    Client: Win XP/2003/2008/Vista/7 AcuThinClient 7.2
    Test 1: Install & run the processing program on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 7seconds to complete the processing!
    Test 2: Install & run the same processing program on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the same processing!
    Test 3: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing
    Test 4: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing

    From the above test results, it shows that Call Thread doesn't work well on HP-UX 11.31 BOE!
    Has anyone come across this problem? Any ways to make HP-UX 11.31 BOE to achieve the same processing speed like MCOE?
    Alternatively, is there a better way to achieve the process termination feature besides using Call Thread?
    Thanks.
    As the same Acu software is running on the HP machines, I am not sure what tips to offer. You can start AcuConnect with a trace file. You can compare the two traces to see if there is anything different.
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    • Dominique SacreRocketeer
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    • March 27, 2012

    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 March 2012]

    I use a CALL THREAD statement (on a main processing program) to execute another program solely to accept a Cancel button so that one can terminate the main processing program at anytime by pressing the Cancel button! The above programs run on the following environments:
    Server: HP-UX 11iv3 AcuConnect 7.2
    Client: Win XP/2003/2008/Vista/7 AcuThinClient 7.2
    Test 1: Install & run the processing program on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 7seconds to complete the processing!
    Test 2: Install & run the same processing program on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the same processing!
    Test 3: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 BOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing
    Test 4: Remove the Call Thread from the processing program & run it on HP-UX 11.31 MCOE - it took 0.2 seconds to complete the processing

    From the above test results, it shows that Call Thread doesn't work well on HP-UX 11.31 BOE!
    Has anyone come across this problem? Any ways to make HP-UX 11.31 BOE to achieve the same processing speed like MCOE?
    Alternatively, is there a better way to achieve the process termination feature besides using Call Thread?
    Thanks.
    CALL THREAD is a perfectly acceptable method to provide the user the ability to interrupt or cancel a process.

    The first thing that comes to mind is that the two environments may be using different Runtime configuration settings. To determine that, execute the application with a Runtime trace. That is, include “-lxe runtime.log” in the command line in the alias. You’ll have something like:

    -lxe runtime.log programname

    After program execution the runtime.log will contain all of the Runtime configuration settings. Compare the settings in both environments to see if they are picking up different Runtime configuration settings.


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