RE: Recommended PC Hardware

["Mitlin, Laurance R." <mitlinl at winthrop dot edu>]

We went from machines similar to yours to machines with 2.79 MHz
processors and 1 GB of ram. Millennium now opens and performs very, very
well.

You also need to check that your anti-virus application isn't checking
every Java app as it loads. If it is, Millennium will suffer fatally. We
use Sophos anti-virus and unchecking the "check inside archive files"
sped up the loading of Millennium significantly.

Larry Mitlin

Laurance R. Mitlin
Associate Dean of Library Services
Ida Jane Dacus Library
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733
(803) 323-2280
FAX: (803) 323-2215
http://www.winthrop.edu/dacus

 

|-----Original Message-----
|From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org 
|[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Maurine McCourry
|Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:03 PM
|To: INNOPAC at innopacusers dot org
|Subject: Recommended PC Hardware
|
|I found the following exchange in the list archives.  I'm 
|wondering if 1) The increased speed did indeed help at 
|Greenwich Library, and 2) If anyone else has any thoughts on 
|this topic.  I didn't find many replies in the archives.  
|We're wondering if upgrading our staff machines would help 
|much with problems like slow opening of the Millennium client. 
| We're already using Pentium III processors with 512 MB RAM, 
|but Millennium takes at least two minutes to open, even on 
|machines that use the module being opened every day, and it 
|slows all other applications being used down significantly in 
|the process.
|
|Thanks in advance for any information.
|
|Maurine McCourry
|Technical Services Librarian
|Hillsdale College
|maurine dot mccourry at hillsdale dot edu
|