Question

I got an Athlon 1200, Win98SE, 256MB DDR Memory.

Without any further load, single user Mozilla client and apache server, I need min 15 Seconds to attach a 2MB tif picture to a small test topic.

Is this average, or do I have s.th. misconfigured?

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001, cygwin install according to Richards very helpful cookbook
• Web server: Apache/1.3.23 (Win32)
• Server OS: Win98SE
• Web browser: Mozilla 0.99
• Client OS: Win98SE

-- WolframJahn - 14 Mar 2002

Answer

Glad you liked the cookbook ... Let me know if there was anything unusual about using Win98.

Uploads of large files are always very slow for some reason - not sure if this is TWiki-related or not, as large attachments to webmail are also slow (e.g. Netscape Mail took ages to attach a 300K file just now). It would be worth looking into this, see the performance related topics in Codev where people have done some profiling.

-- RichardDonkin - 15 Mar 2002

Surprisingly nothing unusual about Win98. Of course, I have no file access control on my pure FAT formatted drives. Maybe you want to hint about this in the cookbook, but I think this is not so important, as the Win98-with-FAT-file-system user has no chance to have it anyway.

And it does not disable any local features. And if someone starts to set up an internet production server, he or she will start to use an actual operating system anyway

I think all this TWiki and cygwin and perl and apache has a very good quality. No wonder if you consider the large community.

Thanks again for your work.

One final question: Who is supposed to close these questions? Me or You?

-- WolframJahn - 15 Mar 2002

I like the whole TWiki/Cygwin/Perl combo myself, being more of a Unix user from the old days... It's really quite amazing to have a near-complete Unix environment (even including job control) on a Windows laptop. Most things Just Work, including CVS, ssh and the excellent vim...

As for closing questions - the asker or responder or someone entirely different can close the question. In this case, the question isn't really answered yet, so it might be good to leave it open, or do a bit of Googling to see if the Web has spoken already on this

-- RichardDonkin - 16 Mar 2002