Re: WebOpac slowness and WAM Proxy?

[Jill Ellern <ellern@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We bought the multiple IP product and are afraid we might experience this problem
as soon as the students get back to searching...so we've been working on a perl
script that looks at the incoming IP number and proxys only when the connection is
off campus.  We are  hoping this will help head off any response problems.

gde

rosy gomez wrote:

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> Subject: WebOpac slowness and WAM Proxy?
>
> We are a large university library system (+80,000 users) running
> Millennium on a server for all libraries. Recently we activated the WAM
> Proxy product and are routing all of our licensed databases thru it.
>
> About 3 weeks ago, when patrons started using the WebOPAC and licensed
> databases, the services slowed down heavily. We have had response times
> of up to 30 seconds (about 3-7 seconds average) between searches and
> record displays. We estimate around 300-500 simultaneous users using the
> WebOpac...
>
> Is there someone who has had this same experience? What was the outcome?
> How did you go about diagnosing the problem?
>
> Also, does the WAM Proxy product generate a heavy server load?
>
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