-----Original Message----- From: Martin Ellison [mailto:martin.ellison at bullant.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:52 PM To: 'perforce-user at perforce.com' Cc: Bruce Hatcher; Alka Yamarti Subject: [p4] Performance question

We would like some advice. We would like to know if any other Perforce users are in a similar situation to us and can offer any advice. In particular, we would like to know whether any Perforce users are currently working in high-latency environments such as slow WAN links and VPN over the Internet successfully? If so, who?

Our Perforce server is situated in Sydney, Australia and we have a branch office in Hyderabad, India with one Perforce user. She is experiencing some problems accessing Perforce and we would like to know if there is anything that could be done to improve her access.

We are running 99.2 on NT4 as P4S. Our users here in Sydney are running normally and memory usage on the server appears to be normal.

The user in India is running P4Win connected over a leased line. On attempting a large sync, she reported that she was "stuck on the same file for more than half an hour" . She reports that p4 -V "comes up very fast" and p4 info "comes up very fast ( 10 secs maybe)".

We are wondering if there are any Perforce parameters that could be modified to allow for the high latency of the connection.

We raised this with Perforce support and they suggested checking the [no]compress option on the client. As it happened, the user had nocompress set and when she changed that setting to compress it did improve performance. However, we are wondering if there are any tuneable parameters (documented or undocumented) that may help (whether Perforce, TCP/IP or whatever).

Regards, Martin Ellison Perforce analyst bullant Technology Pty Ltd E-mail: martin.ellison at bullant.com

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